Enduring the Process

For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Colossians 1:19-22 NLT

Our whole lives are not just carried out on whimsy, there IS a plan and a purpose. God has been intentional about His plan for us since before we were born - even before we were formed in our mother's womb (Jeremiah 1, Psalm 139:16). 

When my kids were little, there was a song they sang in Sunday School  ♪♫ I am a Promise. I am a possibility.♪♫  (written by Amber Nelon Thompson). And if we think back to when we were children, did we know what we would be when we grew up? How many of our life events shaped us into who we are now? The answer is ALL of them. Yes, all of them. As Christ followers, God used ALL of it - the whole process of good and bad - to fulfill His purpose and plan. 

There is a Promise over each of our lives - God's promise. However, we need to be where He is to obtain it. In His presence. In His Word. Trusting Him and staying with Him through the process. There are things we have now that were sown in our lives a long time ago, Strength and endurance are built up through the process. What do we want to reap? 

Prayer:

Father,

          Thank You for making provision for our reconciliation to You. Let this be a reminder that we can't do haphazard sowing and expect to reap only good things. Give us Your strength to endure and grow through the process, Father, to be able to enter into Your Promise. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen