Destiny at stake Week 35, 2011

How could the man be a threat to your destiny? It’s not possible, what power does he have? “He is the head of department and I am destined to be an architect. He wants to rusticate me. Any evil plan of darkness, destroy! Agents of evil, fall down and...” Wait, wait, wait, beloved. That’s not your destiny, that’s not what you were born again for. “What do you mean, I know God’s plan for my life. I was born to be an architect.” I do not dispute God plans for you to design and supervise, but you were born again to obey Jesus: the people chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through the sanctifying work of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood 1Pt 1:2(ISV). Now Jesus asked us to love our enemies and bless those who despitefully use us, are you not going to fulfill the reason God called you in this matter?
“This man, you are looking at God’s general plan for all believers, I am specific to my call. Are you trying to say God has no specific plans of profession for any one’s life? That’s unscriptural; look at Esther: If you don't speak up now, we will somehow get help, but you and your family will be killed. It could be that you were made queen for a time like this! Est 4:14(CEV). Was Joseph not destined to be prime minister in Egypt? ” He was, he was, but did he curse his brothers and Potiphar’s house on the way to it? Was it not by obedience to his father and by purity that God granted opportunities for that divine appointment Gen 37:10-27? Was it not obedience to the father that led Saul to Samuel and David to Goliath? God has destined you to obey Jesus, and every plan of His for your life must be fulfilled as you obey His commands. “Huh!”
Don’t get me wrong; God does have specific professional plans for people’s lives, but the profession is NOT your destiny, it’s too small. Your destiny is your destination, where you end up, not a port of call. Architecture is a port of call, a divine appointment, but your destiny is Christ. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers Rom 8:29(ISV). Bless the man in obedience, for when a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him Pro 16:7(ESV) and if he is obstinate, God will yet use it all to bring you into His divine appointments for you. After all, in him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will Eph 1:11(ESV).