32920 God’s Plan for You

God created you to have an eternal relationship with Him. You are significant because the Creator of the Universe custom designed you in His image.

Job explains,

You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. (Job 10:10-12, NLT)

You are not an accident! God created you in His image. You are very precious to Him.

The Bible tells us that He formed each of us individually in our mother’s wombs and that we are the work of His hands. What an amazing thought—how deeply we are known by the Creator of the universe! The Psalmist writes,

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Psalm 139:13-16 (NLT)

God has a wonderful plan for your life. That plan begins and ends with a love relationship with him. Your very existence now and forever revolves around him. Your growing, personal relationship with God is where your new life starts right here and now.

When you are with your good friend or your loved one, you enjoy just being with them. You also do things together. In the same way, in your ongoing relationship with God, you will enjoy just being with God, “gazing at the splendor of the Lord” (Psalm 27:4) at times, and you will be doing things together with him at other times.

God’s plan for you is, in part, uniquely yours. No one else in the universe can have it but you. Some aspects of his plan are more universal. For example, he would desire for you to be a worshiper.

“But a time is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” – John 4:23-24

The Father seeks true worshipers who worship him in spirit and truth. In Revelation, worship is a recurring theme. Worship is for all eternity, and God desires for you and all saints to be true worshipers.

As you deepen your walk with God, you will discover God’s universal plan for his saints and his more personal plan for your life. He will reveal his plan to you as you are able to

It is important and sobering to note that some aspects of his plan for you are not automatic. You must be an active and obedient participant in his plan. Avoid the two extremes when it comes to seeing God’s plan for you become a reality. On the one end, you must not be passive, thinking that you have no active part to play in his plan. That’s a fatalistic attitude and dishonors God (Luke 19:11-27 gives a story with a man with a similar attitude toward the master). On the other end, you must not try to make God’s plan happen in your own strength. You cannot realize God’s plan in your own strength and efforts “because apart from me”, Jesus says, “you can accomplish nothing” (John 15:5). You must be an obedient “partner” in his plan and be filled (guided and empowered) by the Holy Spirit in order to see all that God has for you come to pass.