Your Divine Design…

Posted on 16. Mar, 2009 by John in Christianity, Everything

While listening to “Your Divine Design – You’re a Masterpiece in the Making, Part 1” from Chip Ingram here I was moved to begin blogging my notes from my journal.

Ephesians 2:1-10
1 And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
5 even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! -
6 and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

My thoughts

I am made for a certain purpose… a masterpiece, unlike any other.
God gifts me with certain things that I can do well.
Therefore, the desires and burning passions in me (if they line up with all of scripture) are from God and I should pursue them knowing that God is the one that put them there? That’s an awesome thought and definitely exciting. I suppose the warning is that I still need to seek God first every day so that I know Him.

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