GOD'S APPOINTMENT

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 NKJV)

God has a plan for each of his children. From the foot of the cross, where we are cradled in our second birth, to the shore of the river, where we lay down our armor, there is a path which He has prepared for us to walk in. God also prepares us for the path He has chosen. We are His workmanship, created unto the good works which He has before prepared. There is no emergency in the path for which there has not been provision made in our nature. From the earliest inception of his being, God had a plan for Jeremiah's career, for which He prepared him.

Ask what your work in the world is, that for which you were born, to which you were appointed, and on account of which you were conceived in the creative thought of God. That there is a divine purpose in your being is indubitable. Seek that you may be permitted to realize it, and never doubt that you have been endowed with all the special aptitudes which that purpose may demand. God has formed you, and stored your mind with all that He knew to be requisite for your life work. It is your part to elaborate and improve to the utmost the one or two talents entrusted to your care.

Do not be jealous or covetous; do not envy another his five talents, but answer the divine intention in your creation, redemption, and call to service. It is enough for you to be what God made you to be, and to be always at your best.

But in cases where the divine purpose is not clearly disclosed, in which life is lived piecemeal, and the bits of marble for the mosaic floor are heaped together with no apparent plan, we must dare to believe that God has an intention for each of us; and that if we are true to our noblest ideals, we shall certainly work out the divine pattern, and be permitted some day to see it in its unveiled symmetry and beauty. To go on occupying the position in which we have been placed by the providence of God, and to hold it for God till He bids us do something else! Such are golden secrets of blessedness and usefulness.

PRAYER

Lord, may Your all powerful grace make us perfect as You have commanded us to be; through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray it, AMEN.