"Free To Be!"

 "As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." (John 17:18 KJV)

  "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." (Ephesians 3:7 KJV) 

 There are certain times we are given to be used, not because we are able or gifted in some sort of ability, but because God has a certain purpose for our lives; most of which we simply don't fully understand, but we are given the power to trust Him, by His Spirit. We really don't need to know the reason, because His ways are always greater than ours, our plans can never reach the magnitude of what He has planned, as His plans are eternal! 

 I really don't know how else to put this, because it really isn't a matter of us knowing what God intends to do, but that we just do and go where He leads us, one day at a time, moment by moment. That is what the meaning of the title is meant for; because we have something to do, not based upon what we have plans for doing, but based upon God's will and purpose for our lives. 

 When it is God's hand that is guiding us, everything works together towards the good; even those things that are something we might not have done right, God uses them for His plan to do good! If you need some examples, there are many; all throughout the Bible, we see men of God that do things wrong, somehow or someway, God turns them back into something that is meant for good. 

 You know what I mean, you just might not fully see it! Abraham is a really good example, as it was his big mistake in have his, so-called first son, born from Sarah's servant; yet it was the offsprings of that child that ended up saving the children of Israel, by taking Joseph to Egypt to be sold as a slave. If they had not come along when they did, his brothers would have killed him, leaving him to that pit. 

 Many refer to that as Abraham's fleshly mistake, while the birth of Issac was born from the Spirit. But God can use both, and He does it masterfully! Even David's biggest blunder, God used it for good! If you doubt that is true, then take a good look at yourself, asking, "How many people have I ever hated?" I you have hated anyone; in your heart you have murdered them! 

 Yesterday I heard a message about Peter, as he was sharing in his epistle how we must be vigilant and aware of what is going on around us; yet in the Lord's worst moments, he kept sleeping and falling asleep. Even after the Lord asked him, saying, "Can't you just pray for one hour?" he went right back to sleep. 

 We can't see what God might do with certain things all around us, but we can be aware of what is going on! God has given us spiritual awareness, if we are willing to pay attention to what the Holy Spirit is telling us. We really don't need to discern the outcome of anything, that is God's thing; but we do need to be willing to live in the moment, letting God work in and through us...

 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:17-21 KJV)