"Make sure you
understand what the Master wants." Ephesians 5:17
Have you ever
mistakenly picked somebody's luggage off a conveyer belt at the airport
and taken it home? Two seconds after opening it up you discovered - you
cannot live out of somebody's bag! You cannot wear their clothes or fit
into their shoes.
So why do we try to?
Parents! Dad says, "Son, your granddad was a farmer, I am a
farmer, and someday you will inherit the farm." Teachers! A
teacher warns a young girl who wants to be a stay-at-home mom, "Do not
squander your life. With your gifts you could make it to the top."
Church leaders! "Jesus was a missionary. Do you want to
please Him? Spend your life on foreign soil." Sound counsel or
poor advice? That depends on what God packed in your bag. What if
God made the farmer's son with a passion for literature or medicine? Or
gave that girl a love for kids and homemaking? If foreign cultures
frustrate you while predictability invigorates you, what are the chances you would
be a happy missionary? "All the days ordained for me were written in
your book before one of them came to be" Psalms 139:16.
God gives us eyes
for organization, ears for music, hearts that beat for justice, minds that
understand physics, hands that love care giving, legs that run and win races.
Secular thinking does not buy this. It sees no author behind the
book and no purpose behind or beyond life. It says, "You can be
anything you want to be." Wrong! Do not make their mistake.
Do not live carelessly or unthinkingly. "Make sure you
understand what the Master wants."
Written by Linda Diokpa
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