Your Life Matters

I know two things about you that you don’t know I know:

1. Your life is turning out differently than you expected.

Your response to that probably falls into one of three categories:
• Determination (you're still trying to make it happen)
• Frustration
• Resignation

Here's what the God of the Universe has to say about all that:

”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you..." (Jer 1:5)

I knit you together in your Mother's womb. (paraphrase of Ps 139:13)

"The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps." (Prov 16:9)

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." (Jer 29:11)

Are you starting to see that your plans might not have been His plans? Are you willing to believe that His plan is better? Are you willing to trust Him in that plan, no matter what?

2. Deep inside you there’s something that says “my life must matter”.

You have probably lived long enough already to ask this question: what is my purpose, why am I here?

The plan for your significance is already in place. I know that b/c of John 15:16 which says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you."

The key to it all is the Cross!

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

In the days of Noah, God destroyed the world by flood---and He was perfectly right and just to do so. By the time of Jesus, the world was worse than it had been in Noah's day. Because He is the just and righteous Judge of the Universe, God had to act and act He did. He declared mankind guilty of sin for we are all sinners by choice and have all sinned against God with a high hand. He decreed the just and deserved punishment for sin which is death and He carried out the death penalty----on His Own Son!!!

For your sake, God made His Own Son, who had never for eternity past known sin, to become sin so that in Him you might become the righteousness of God!

Yes, your life is turning out differently than you expected; its turning out just the way God planned it to. There are reasons for the joy, purposes for the pain and meaning in the tragedies.

Yes, God's plan is for your life to matter, to matter more than you ever imagined but to matter IN HIS WAY, ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN, IN HIS TIME AND FOR HIS GLORY!

The question is simply this: Will you win by surrendering to Him?

Jesus did. He said, "For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me." (John 6:38)

Your life can matter and you can win---but only by surrendering to Him!