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PURPOSE
As I type this Blog, I just came from a very long “Ministry Break.”
As I type this Blog, I don’t have a title yet because the title I had for it may not be in line with it anymore.
As I type this Blog, I just came from doing my Devotion.
Before I typed this Blog, I was ready to type a heading “Another Journal Entry,’ a title I thought to use, since when I figured it was time to get back from our “Vacation.”
Before I typed, I asked GOD to guide me and HE led me to my Devotion.
I did my Devotion and I got word for #DailyVibes and I could hear HIM telling me that as much as I was creating it for my Socials’ Story, it is the next Blog.
And I was like, “But this won’t fit with the title…”
Oh how we hang on to and get rigid with what we have planned and completely disregard what GOD has intended, I repent.
Moreover, just to nag me some more, a friend sent me a message after seeing the stories. “This should be a Blog Post…”
Hahaha!! I laugh, but embarrassed at my own “Disobedience Incognito.”
Thank you friend…Bleshya!!
The portion of Scripture I read was from Romans 8:28-30…
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose.
For those GOD foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And those HE predestined, HE also called; those HE called, HE also justified; those HE justified, HE also Glorified.”
Take a minute to ask GOD to open up your heart and mind to this passage.
It got me repenting for many things I have taken for granted. For a lot of Scripture that I have translated my own way because I feel like my “Grammar Teacher outdid herself in my life.”
Joke on me…
Let us take it verse by verse…
Verse 28
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose.
"
Yes indeed, all things including all the bad ones and not the good ones alone; the tribulations the sufferings and everything that makes us not want to face another day.
That GOD will take what was meant for our harm and make it beautiful for us.
That is what I have mainly heard preached with this verse and I have translated it mainly this way and it is very true in every aspect.
In this Blog, GOD gave me a more elaborate dive; more to what I have overlooked in the verse.
...GOD Works...
How about the realization that it is GOD who works them together and not the Universe or fate?
The most comforting part about it.
Whenever HE steps in everything is perfect.
I needed to believe that fact more. That whether it is good or bad, it is HIM who works it together.
HE created all that is around me and it’s beautiful.
How much more for me?
Secondly, whenever GOD’s works and doings are involved, it comes with a lot, right?
Every blessing I have read in the Bible comes with a condition. However, how many times have we left out that condition? How many times have we uttered that we are blessed yet forgotten what the blessings of GOD come with?
Looking at HIS Saving Grace, it came at a very heavy cost.
Largely, the death of a MAN, that loved so much to see HIS FATHER’s Children live a life that will lead them to an Eternal Damnation.
There is also a cost that comes with following CHRIST.
It means taking up your cross and following HIM.
There is so much you have to let go of.
Commitment to HIS ways, obedience to HIS Commands, throwing out rebellion and accepting that the suffering HE went through on Earth is also apportioned to us.
In the same way, HIS blessings come at a cost, in order to fully enjoy that which GOD has promised us; in order for GOD to work in us.
It is a blessing for GOD to work in and through us, but for HIM to do that, we need to abandon the very things that keep us away from HIS purpose.
What will it convict in us when we remember the number of times we left out “…of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose?”
“…for those who love HIM…”
If you love someone, you will make sure that you do not grieve them. You will make sure to live with them in harmony, you want them close by you, you want to do good to them and as by them, you want to please them, you want them to love you back.
And so you will find yourself living by their rules, respecting their boundaries, taking care of what they own and care about and a lot of other things.
JESUS summed it up and said…
“If you love ME, keep my commands.” John 14:15.
“..who have been called according to HIS purpose.”
The Dictionary meaning of the word...
As I type this Blog, I don’t have a title yet because the title I had for it may not be in line with it anymore.
As I type this Blog, I just came from doing my Devotion.
Before I typed this Blog, I was ready to type a heading “Another Journal Entry,’ a title I thought to use, since when I figured it was time to get back from our “Vacation.”
Before I typed, I asked GOD to guide me and HE led me to my Devotion.
I did my Devotion and I got word for #DailyVibes and I could hear HIM telling me that as much as I was creating it for my Socials’ Story, it is the next Blog.
And I was like, “But this won’t fit with the title…”
Oh how we hang on to and get rigid with what we have planned and completely disregard what GOD has intended, I repent.
Moreover, just to nag me some more, a friend sent me a message after seeing the stories. “This should be a Blog Post…”
Hahaha!! I laugh, but embarrassed at my own “Disobedience Incognito.”
Thank you friend…Bleshya!!
The portion of Scripture I read was from Romans 8:28-30…
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose.
For those GOD foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And those HE predestined, HE also called; those HE called, HE also justified; those HE justified, HE also Glorified.”
Take a minute to ask GOD to open up your heart and mind to this passage.
It got me repenting for many things I have taken for granted. For a lot of Scripture that I have translated my own way because I feel like my “Grammar Teacher outdid herself in my life.”
Joke on me…
Let us take it verse by verse…
Verse 28
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose.
"
Yes indeed, all things including all the bad ones and not the good ones alone; the tribulations the sufferings and everything that makes us not want to face another day.
That GOD will take what was meant for our harm and make it beautiful for us.
That is what I have mainly heard preached with this verse and I have translated it mainly this way and it is very true in every aspect.
In this Blog, GOD gave me a more elaborate dive; more to what I have overlooked in the verse.
...GOD Works...
How about the realization that it is GOD who works them together and not the Universe or fate?
The most comforting part about it.
Whenever HE steps in everything is perfect.
I needed to believe that fact more. That whether it is good or bad, it is HIM who works it together.
HE created all that is around me and it’s beautiful.
How much more for me?
Secondly, whenever GOD’s works and doings are involved, it comes with a lot, right?
Every blessing I have read in the Bible comes with a condition. However, how many times have we left out that condition? How many times have we uttered that we are blessed yet forgotten what the blessings of GOD come with?
Looking at HIS Saving Grace, it came at a very heavy cost.
Largely, the death of a MAN, that loved so much to see HIS FATHER’s Children live a life that will lead them to an Eternal Damnation.
There is also a cost that comes with following CHRIST.
It means taking up your cross and following HIM.
There is so much you have to let go of.
Commitment to HIS ways, obedience to HIS Commands, throwing out rebellion and accepting that the suffering HE went through on Earth is also apportioned to us.
In the same way, HIS blessings come at a cost, in order to fully enjoy that which GOD has promised us; in order for GOD to work in us.
It is a blessing for GOD to work in and through us, but for HIM to do that, we need to abandon the very things that keep us away from HIS purpose.
What will it convict in us when we remember the number of times we left out “…of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose?”
“…for those who love HIM…”
If you love someone, you will make sure that you do not grieve them. You will make sure to live with them in harmony, you want them close by you, you want to do good to them and as by them, you want to please them, you want them to love you back.
And so you will find yourself living by their rules, respecting their boundaries, taking care of what they own and care about and a lot of other things.
JESUS summed it up and said…
“If you love ME, keep my commands.” John 14:15.
“..who have been called according to HIS purpose.”
The Dictionary meaning of the word...
