Forward In Love - Sunday, January 20

And now the LORD says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength.
Isaiah49:5


As God’s love grows in our hearts, we are more and more set free from our prejudices, agendas and selfish interests. We are transformed into servants of God. The entire human race was created to worship God and enjoy Him forever. The fall of humanity and presence of sin have switched all of us to another track, but it has not changed God’s purpose in the smallest degree.
When Jesus enters our lives and we live in a relationship with Him, we become aware of God’s purpose for each of us. We were created for God; He made us for His purpose. The realization of our life’s purpose is the most joy-filled realization on earth.
The first thing that God does as we understand our purpose is shove a love for the entire world through the channels of a single human heart. God’s love is introduced into us but is focused through John 3:16, “God so loved the world…” We have to keep our soul open to the simple purposes of God that were introduced to us when we first met Jesus. We cannot allow the purposes of God to become muddied with our own intentions. If we do, God will have to crush our intentions, as painful as it might be.
Our greatest purpose is to be God’s servant and to glorify Him. When we understand that Jesus’ saving work of making us new creations made us perfectly compatible to God, then we understand why God is so relentless in His demands of our life. God requires a lot of His servants because He has put His nature in us. Today, live in the awareness that forgetting God’s purpose for your life is life’s greatest diversions.