How precious we all are in the sight of God. In Psalms 139:13, 14 and 16, “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.”, “Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.” What great assurance these verses are. God started my life. God knows me from my first heart beat and when I will breathe my last. These verses give us a security but also a responsibility to fulfill God’s plan in the time we have on this earth. Are we meeting God’s plan for us in our lives and as our part in the church. We read David’s prayer in verse 23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts” Can we pray this same prayer? Let us ask God to mold us and make us as per his will.
In Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” We know the context that this verse is in. This is what God says to the Israelites when they were exiles in Babylon because of their sins. Jeremiah assures them that God’s plans are not for any calamity in their lives. God places us in the place that we are for our welfare. Let us seek to find that will of God in our lives to do our part in the place that God has set us. We need to contribute our part to the local church that God has placed us in. In Isaiah 66:2, ““For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.” If we are humble and contrite in spirit God will bring his promises to pass. If we constantly seek God’s will with a humble heart at the end of our lives we will not have any regret.
We know of the instance when David was anointed by Samuel as the future king in 1 Samuel 16. Saul was rejected by God as the king. David was a man after God’s own heart. Samuel thought God had chosen other sons of Jesse by looking at their appearance. God sees the heart while man looks at the outward appearance. David, whom even his father despised, was the one that God chose. God saw David’s heart, chose him and anointed him with the Holy Spirit. In 2 Samuel 7 we read of David’s burden for the house of God. David lived a very comfortable life but his burden was for the Ark of the Covenant. Do we have a burden for the house of God or are we satisfied with the comfortable life that we lead? How can we contribute more for the body of Christ? Let us eagerly seek for God to reveal His plan for us in the body of Christ. In verse 8 we read God saying to David that He had taken David from the pastures to rule over His people. God has taken us from our ancestral beliefs to be part of his family.
In 1 Chronicles 28 we read how David had a desire to build the temple for God but God chose Solomon to build the temple because David was a man of war. To the one that God chose, Solomon, God gives the following promise, “I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him.” This is promise for anyone who is chosen to build the church. God made all preparations for the temple so that Solomon could build the temple in peace.
In 1 Corinthians 3:16 we read that we are all temples of God and the spirit of God dwells in us. We need to be careful not to pollute this temple. Paul saw carnality in the Corinthian christians and could not give them solid food because they were fleshly. Whatever carnality is in our lives have to be removed if we want to keep this temple pure. When Solomon built the temple of God, the stones were chipped in the quarry itself to fit right into its place at the temple. In order to fit into our places in the church, God will allow us to go through some situations to be molded into our place. We need to submit ourselves to that plan.
In Ephesians 1 we read that God has chosen us before the foundation of the world in love. God has chosen us! Don’t we have a responsibility to do our part that He has planned? In 2 Peter 2 we read that God’s divine power has given us all that we need and equipped us so that we can partake of the divine nature and stay away from the lusts of this world. Let us seek God’s heart continually and live accordingly.
