God’s Plan for Me

Have you ever heard someone say, “I can’t wait to see what God has planned for you.” This statement is often shared after a person recovers from a life-altering event.

As if we didn’t have a plan in the before …as if we didn’t have a purpose in the before …regardless of circumstances or mistakes. Regardless of accidents an unprecidented events. Regardless of our past. Regardless …

We don’t need to go through a traumatic event or see our bodies float above the operating table for God to create purpose for each one of us. We are given a different gift from the Holy Spirit for the common good, according to I Corinthians 12:7.

Life in the common good is the place that our stories become known, dreams realized, and destinies fulfilled.

Our lives are stories. We all have them.

Regardless of how we create a particular chapter, God wrote the ending. When we seek to honor God with our lives, talents, gifts, and dreams, He will create a spectacular Kingdom ending.

While some stories are interspersed with chapters showcasing divine interventions, others live stories weighted in grief and horrific events. Some people might believe their lives don’t tell good stories. but for those committed to Christ, there is a plan and a purpose.

We are “God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

— Ephesians 2:10 NIV

If I have breath, I have purpose. God lives with us in the spectacular, the pain, the commonplace. He edits the lives of those running to Him and helps us change focus from individual circumstances, life events, and self to His purpose, His love, and Him.  We then see He held us and carried us through. How He whispered in our ears and provided peace. How He provides eternal rest regardless of temporal situations good, bad, and commonplace.

All stories and lives are worthy of the plans He intended from birth. The ultimate plan that matters is the same for all of us. Regardless of how our story reads today. When we reach the last chapter of life and see the face of Jesus, what an ending!