Let’s dive into how we can better understand God’s plan for us, and how to “find” our purpose, and know we are loved.
I have created a beautiful poem analogy that I pray homemakers and cooks will appreciate, as God’s unfolding plan for us is like a delicious meal that must be made from scratch.
As you walk into the kitchen, only ingredients are seen.
Fully aware you must make a meal, you know an end plan has been made. Only the one who has given you the supplies knows this plan. For all you know, is what is given to you.
For how can you cook a meal, in which you know not what to make?
Going forward, you see what is in front of you. You have only your feelings from within to guide you, your previous experience to help you, and the cookbook placed in front of you.
Although you cannot picture what is to be made, you trust that the One who gave you the means necessary to make your meal has given you all you need.
Your cookbook gives you promises of an eternal meal, one in which you will never hunger or thirst. This is the meal you strive for.
The cookbook teaches you how to be a cook, how to transform your meal, and assist others in making theirs. The cookbook tells you how to use your ingredients, but you have control in when they are used and how much.
Unsure the amount of the ingredients, unsure at when to use them, you look to what you see others’ doing, and mimic their good and bad methods. You compare your meal to the making of others’. You reach for outside supplies, try to leave out ingredients needed, and constantly throughout the cooking process feel as though your meal cannot be fixed.
Then you remember what is written in the cookbook, you remember that no two meals are the same, you remember you have been left a helper, speaking to you from within. You remember that you are in charge of combining the ingredients, taking control of the mixing, but the baking to perfection is done by the light of the oven.
The light that heats the oven, the light that transforms the meal, will purify it, and will make it new, made perfect.
We must work our hardest to create in ourselves, in our lives, a new “meal”, for once perfectly baked, our meal can be added to the eternal feast, the eternal banquet, and eat of the living bread that will never perish.
Understanding God’s Plan
Are you struggling with feeling alone? Feeling like you are unsure of your purpose here on Earth? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Everyone has felt this, and often feels it throughout their life time.
To say that our human selves love certainty, is quite an understatement. Even though “believing not seeing” is what we live by as Christians, our human minds find much comfort when we understand through absolutes. As humans, we like facts, evidence, and undeniable truths. This is where the fruits of the Spirit come in.
Galatians 5:22-23
“…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.”
How do characteristics from the Holy Spirit, attributes that don’t have a definite description and are subjective, help us when we need assurance? Well, in order to try to understand God’s plan for us, we must try to understand God.
Isaiah 55:8
“’For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord.”
The first thing to understand about God, is the fact that we will never fully understand Him while we are here on Earth.
Proverbs 19:21
“The human mind may devise many plans,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.”
And no matter how much we dive in and analyze what He has revealed to us about Himself, we can never fully understand Him. What we can understand, is that God is love. He is love itself in many and all forms, and loves us wholeheartedly. What God wants from us, is to love Him back.
1 Corinthians 2:9
“However, as it is written:
‘What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived’—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—”
Even if we don’t fully understand why God has placed us in situations we are in, going through trials we are, or in the lives of certain people, we can be sure that God will use us for His will, for His glory, if we let Him.
God’s Plan Unfolded
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
“A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9
“We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
“Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.” Proverbs 19:21
“I will instruct you and teach you
the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.” Psalm 32:8
“The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
You. Are. Loved.
God wants you to know that YOU ARE LOVED. You were created by Him, specifically for His plan. You. have. a. purpose.
Out of everything and everyone God has made, He made you. You were designed specifically by the God of our universe, to be exactly where you are. You are fulfilling His plan with your many talents and blessings.
DON’T for a second think that God can’t use you.
You were made to reach certain people. Made to care and love for certain people, and to do His will by handing over your life to Him. Even if you feel like you have failed, even if you feel like you have nothing else, know that God WILL USE YOU AND YOUR STORY to help others and bring His light to the world. Don’t give up.
Pray that God reveals to you His plan for you, and take it one step at a time. For God knows the full length of your journey, and how many steps you need to take. For now, just take one. Pray.
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