Choosing A Place Far Away, That Was Not God's Choice, It's Ours

My Utmost For His Highest

 

Now the Lord says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant… —Isaiah 49:5

 

“The first thing that happens after we recognize our election by God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our preconceived ideas, our narrow-minded thinking, and all of our other allegiances— we are turned solely into servants of God’s own purpose. The entire human race was created to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Sin has diverted the human race onto another course, but it has not altered God’s purpose to the slightest degree. And when we are born again we are brought into the realization of God’s great purpose for the human race, namely, that He created us for Himself. […] He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.”  CHAMBERS

 

Do you know someone, might be a friend, a relative, perhaps a child or maybe even you that you wished a good life filled with the joy of the Lord, but they chose another path.  One of misery, heartache, disappointment, and trouble.  (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.”  God has a plan but He has given us a free will.  The ability to choose His way or some other way.  No amount of my wanting will change the course of another once chosen.  Only God’s intervention and a yielded heart will do that.  It’s a spiritual problem that manifests itself in the physical and, as such, requires a spiritual solution.  With respect to children, we watch the struggle and pray for a new day in their lives. When the father looked down the road in the hopes that the prodigal son would return, the father did not go to look for the son and try to convince him to return.  He waited in hope.  So our Father waits in hope and so should we.  If there is one thing that having children does, it teaches you to look up.  And if it’s you that has gone your own way … traveled far from the course that God has set out for you … then I say .. repent and return to the Father.  There is no better place to be. But until there is a spiritual revelation and surrender, it will remain a place far away.  ELGIN