A sense of destiny
Genesis 15
The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”
Genesis 12:1-2
One of the things that happens when we become a Christian is that we pick sense of destiny and a sense of mission. After God placed his hand on Abraham (Gen. 12), Abraham never viewed his life in the same way again.
He said, “I am special, and I am here for a purpose. All the nations of the earth are going to bless themselves in me.” This was not pride, but a sense of purpose.
The moment you become a Christian, you begin to realize that God has a work for you to do, and that work is important. Not only that, but if you are not faithful to complete God’s purpose for you, you will be held accountable in the Judgment.
God does not call us to a work for our personal fulfillment. We are called for the sake of the world. And we will be held accountable for what we do with the truth that is given to us. From the first day that God called Abraham, he had the whole world in mind. God’s plan for you and me includes no narrow provincialism.
God took Abraham into kings’ courts, to the center of political power, so God’s witness could extend into those pagan places. God never intended you and me to be off on the eddies of society and on the margin of history.
It is his gospel, his redemptive work, and it will be in the center of all that is valuable. Important things are going on in the world today, but there is nothing more important than fulfilling God’s destiny for our life-becoming a witness to the world for him.
This is an excerpt from a book This Day with the Master by Dennis F. Kinlaw. If you would like to buy this book please click here.