God Orchestrates Situations (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! and thank you for giving us the opportunity to come to you today and we trust that you are having a wonderful week, as you are journeying with God and growing with Him, day by day. This week, we are reflecting on living with purpose, just highlighting or reminding us of simple truths concerning the purpose of God for our lives. Today, I want to remind us about the fact that God orchestrates situations in our lives as part of His unfolding His purpose for us. God has a plan, a purpose for you, He's designed you to fulfill that, He prepares you, He prepares us for that, and He also orchestrates situations to get us moving into the things He has in store for us. Sometimes it's opportunities He brings to us, sometimes it's divine interventions that come into our lives, sometimes it's grace and resources He places in our hands, sometimes it's certain people He puts into our lives and in so many different ways God is orchestrating things to skillfully move us into His plans and purposes. We must learn to recognize the hand of God at work, in life situations and life experiences, that God is at work and He's orchestrating things. I'm reminded of what the apostle Paul wrote in Galatians chapter 1, verses 15 and 16 he says, ‘when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood’ and he goes on to talk about what God did. What I want to see here in these verses is Paul recognized that God had called Him from his mother's womb, but his Damascus Road experience must have happened when he was about 30 years of age or thereabouts, because he had already become a Pharisee by then, he had been trained as a Pharisee. So, he must have been about 30 years of age. But he says, God called me from my mother's womb. Now, why did God wait for 30 years for him to have this Damascus Road experience? We don't know why God did it that way, but the fact is that everything Paul went through in time prior to that experience was leading up towards that, and also useful the work that God had for him thereafter. Paul had studied under Gamaliel, he was a scholar of the Old Testament scriptures as we know it, and that really prepared him. When he had the encounter with Jesus, everything suddenly came alive, it made sense and the Old Testament pointed powerfully to the one with whom he had this great encounter. So, none of the experiences of life was wasted, it was all building up towards God's purpose for his life. And that's the way God is at work in your life and mind. Nothing is wasted. God is orchestrating things for His grand purposes for your life. Let's pray, Father, we thank you, that you are orchestrating things in our lives, and you are working these things out to help us journey into your purposes. Help us recognize what you're doing and journey with you, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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