Is it the Master's plan? week 34, 2011

“You mean is it in the master plan surely.” No. It has to be in the Master’s plan for your life. As he told them goodbye, he said, "I will come back to you again if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus Act 18:21(ISV). “Look God has given us the potential to accomplish things, so go right ahead; it is in the master plan, I mean master’s plan.”
I see; how many children do you have? “Four. Why do you ask?” How many more are you expecting? You should not have less than 30. “I beg stop that! What am I doing with 30 children?” Don’t you know you have the potential of having at least one child each year as a woman? And your husband has the potential of fathering millions of children; how come you do not seek to fulfill that potential? “I don’t see where this train of discussion is getting us.” You don’t? It is not all things that are possible that are necessary. We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good 1Cor 10:23(BBE). “Explain some more.” You have the potential to be any and every professional in this life. Your brain is that good. You can train yourself to excel in every sport; your body is that fearfully and wonderfully made, yet you dedicate yourself to a select few for efficiency. Fulfilling your potential must be tempered by fulfilling the plan for your life.
“This master’s plan business…I don’t want to be a poor missionary in some odd country depending on charity for basic needs!” Is that the lie Satan plants in your mind about following the master’s plan? Have you forgotten Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you, so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing 1Th 4:11, 12(ISV). God is looking for those who pursue no plans of their own, but His plans; who do not resort to their own devices to bring things to accomplishment but His methods , strength and grace alone. That is true fellowship with the master.
“You are so preoccupied with checks and standards, huh!” But why not? Which apprentice is not preoccupied with getting the job done to his master’s specifications; which contractor has no care for the job specification? What other ambition can I have? Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him 2Co 5:9(YLT). The Inspector is at the door, can’t you hear behold the king comes?For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare … Jer 29:11(ESV)