https://odb.org/MY/2021/10/15/sealed-orders
If we have learnt about God’s will before, we will know that there are broadly 3 types of God’s will. The first is His sovereign will, which will proceed no matter what mankind does. For example, God’s will for Christ to die for our sins or His second coming or the new heaven and new earth as revealed in Revelation 22.
The second is God’s general will or some call moral will. These are basically God’s laws and percepts as set out in Scripture like the Ten Commandments or the detailed ones in Deuteronomy or Jesus’s New Testament “love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul and mind, and secondly to love your neighbour as yourself.”
The third one is God’s specific will for us. One preacher even preached that this will be the one question God will ask us one day – have we done the thing that He had created us for, that He had planned for us since the beginning of time? Have we fulfilled His plans and purposes for our lives? As each of us are unique and special with our own talents and individual character and personality, God has a specific plan for each of us. In today’s ODB, the writer wrote about our sealed orders, the set of instructions specifically meant for us as an individual in the Kingdom of God. That is why as I’ve written about before (in my past writings prior to the establishment of this blog) that we all have individual lanes to run the race of faith and our goal in this regard is to strive towards our finish line. We are not competing with anyone (maybe we can look to others to inspire us as a role model or mentor) but we run our own race within our own lane to reach our own finish line. We wear our own race colours which is that of Christ, we are in Team Jesus!
Besides the need to fulfil God’s calling or His specific will for us, what’s also important to note is that God’s calling will also bring the best out of us. Every father’s or mother’s deepest desire is to see their children fulfill their fullest potential. Every coach’s dream is to see his or her charges become the athlete they are meant to be. Every teacher’s goal is to see their students do the best they could in their exams and lives. I believe God is no exception. He wants us to fulfil His plans and purposes for us, knowing that as we do so, we will become the best we could ever be in Christ. That’s the thing that makes us tick. That’s the thing what when we wake, it drives us forward. We just want to do that day in day out. Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). Ironical as it may seem, as we strive to fulfill God’s calling for us, we will find that the very thing God called us to will become the desire of our heart. As we seek Him first, the very thing that He called us to will be the thing that will be added unto us. What we want and desire most will actually be just doing what God has called us to do. Why? Because our fullest potential in life, the best version of us will emerge as we fulfil His calling for us. It will bring us the most joy, we will be most at peace, knowing we are doing what we were meant to be doing. That’s our destiny, that’s the raison d’etre of our existence as a human being, as a child of God – fulfilling God’s will for our lives!
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