Discovering God's Purpose - Part 3
One of the difficult things I have each week is hearing about or seeing people doing things that I think I should be doing.
A few weeks ago I read my son's mother in law was guest speaker at a Christian Education Conference. Cliff Richard - at age 70 - is still the best rock `n' roller ever. Just watching him makes me feel tired. My favourite Children's Ministry worker, known as `funky' Duggie Dug Dug, is about the same age as me. I seemed to have lost my funkiness a long time ago. Even Women's Conference this year left me feeling sorry for myself. Wonderful speakers, full of energy and passion. All I could do was worry about where mine was gone.
Some great men of God had this problem too.
ISAIAH
"I have laboured for no purpose. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing." Isaiah 49:4
JEREMIAH
"What sorrow is mine, O mother. Oh that I had died at birth." Jeremiah 15:10
JOB
"My life drags by day after hopeless day...... I give up. I am tired of living. Leave me alone. Life makes no sense." Job 7:6&16
What tragedy in these words. Their lives seem to have no purpose. They had lost all hope.
I try desperately each morning to take that first step out of bed seeking something purposeful I can do with my day. Instead, I just lie there - pain and hopelessness keeping me from taking that first move.
But like Isaiah, Jeremiah and Job, there comes a time that God, through His Word shows me a way ahead. I can have new hope in God's promises.
ISAIAH
"Those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will sour on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31
JEREMIAH
"I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans not to hurt you, but to give you a hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
JOB
"I know you can do anything and no one can stop you......The Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life, more than in the beginning." JOB 42:2&12
I don't know what the second half of my life holds in store for me. Maybe I am to return to teaching and leadership, or God may have something a little more simple he wants me to do. But whatever it is I know He will give me just enough strength to follow His will.
"A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full one." Proverbs 13:7
"Don't act thoughtlessly but understand what the Lord wants you to do." Ephesians 5:17
"I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you." Psalm 32:8
JOB
A few weeks ago I read my son's mother in law was guest speaker at a Christian Education Conference. Cliff Richard - at age 70 - is still the best rock `n' roller ever. Just watching him makes me feel tired. My favourite Children's Ministry worker, known as `funky' Duggie Dug Dug, is about the same age as me. I seemed to have lost my funkiness a long time ago. Even Women's Conference this year left me feeling sorry for myself. Wonderful speakers, full of energy and passion. All I could do was worry about where mine was gone.
Some great men of God had this problem too.
ISAIAH
"I have laboured for no purpose. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing." Isaiah 49:4
JEREMIAH
"What sorrow is mine, O mother. Oh that I had died at birth." Jeremiah 15:10
JOB
"My life drags by day after hopeless day...... I give up. I am tired of living. Leave me alone. Life makes no sense." Job 7:6&16
What tragedy in these words. Their lives seem to have no purpose. They had lost all hope.
I try desperately each morning to take that first step out of bed seeking something purposeful I can do with my day. Instead, I just lie there - pain and hopelessness keeping me from taking that first move.
But like Isaiah, Jeremiah and Job, there comes a time that God, through His Word shows me a way ahead. I can have new hope in God's promises.
ISAIAH
"Those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will sour on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31
JEREMIAH
"I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans not to hurt you, but to give you a hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
JOB
"I know you can do anything and no one can stop you......The Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life, more than in the beginning." JOB 42:2&12
I don't know what the second half of my life holds in store for me. Maybe I am to return to teaching and leadership, or God may have something a little more simple he wants me to do. But whatever it is I know He will give me just enough strength to follow His will.
"A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full one." Proverbs 13:7
"Don't act thoughtlessly but understand what the Lord wants you to do." Ephesians 5:17
"I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you." Psalm 32:8
JOB
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