Just a thought..

I had a young gentlemen come to me with a few questions that seemed to bother him.  He was stuck on the idea of not knowing the plans that God currently has for him.  His confusion about the direction of his life appeared to generate more uncertainties as each day grew older.  He was not only lost in his direction, but he was also lost in his sin.  James 4:17 says; “Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”  It’s not the violence of this world that scares me… It’s the silence of the many Christians.  There are so many Christians simply not doing what God wants them to do.   

Roman’s chapter 3:23 says; “for all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God; Roman’s 6:23 says; “For the wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.”    What this scripture is telling us is that all of us are in the same condition... We are all broken and all have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God. This passage is saying that your life has a certain intention to it and a certain direction but every one of us has lived our lives beneath the intention of Gods design.  We need to learn how to embrace the reality of sin and how it separates us from who God intended us to become.  By grabbing on tight to this reality and understanding the importance of it, it can create within us the change and transformation that we so desperately need.  Sin is the reminder that there is a distance between whom we are and who we can be!  Sin best describes the gap between the reality that we’ve created and the reality that God intended to create.  Paul writes in Roman’s saying; “that all have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God.”  Your life is supposed to be like an arrow soaring through the air directly towards the sweet spot of the target. And every time we live beneath the intent that God has for our life, we sin.   We must realize that we were created with intention...  We were created with intellect, we were created with a design, and our life is supposed to have direction, purpose and a reason.  How many Christians are living their lives with intent?  For all have sinned and have fallen short of Gods ‘intention’ for their lives.  I think one of the greatest catastrophes is that many of you were created for more than you actually know.  When God created you he didn’t just rapidly form you, He created you specifically with a purpose… He created you with greatness!! And many of us don’t realize that!! Your life is supposed to be an arrow moving towards the target of extraordinary.  You were created to be beyond imaginable!! You are imprinted by Majesty!!  We were created to Dream and live God sized Dreams!  We were created to go and live the impossible through our Lord Jesus! God placed within us the capabilities to do ALL THINGS for His Glory!! A person completely dedicated to Gods work understands that even though there might be a restricted number of resources for a certain project, there are always an immeasurable number of possibilities.  Vision is seeing events and people through Christ's perspective.  And faith in Christ is the fuel that keeps your vision and spiritual journey going!

Your passions, your dreams, your desires were not just accidently placed within you.  They were given to you to use for the Glory of God. They were placed upon you so that you may do wonders and great things for our Lord.  The little that we have, if we use it fully for Christ; Christ will pour His blessing over it and multiply it beyond our imagination.  Many teens come to me with the same question. What is my calling?!!  Each one of us has the same calling, and that is to live a Christ-like life.  That means we must have the same characteristic of Christ; the same reflection so that others literally see Him in us.  We all have the same calling, but God has different dreams for each of us.  The dreams that God placed in me are completely different than those of my friends, but we each pursue our God-given dreams for our callings.  We are not created to live in the background of life.  We are not created to just sit around and let everyone else do the work.  God placed within us dreams for us to live out!

If we accept the anointing that God has poured over us through the blood of Jesus we become Kings by Divine right.  We become awakened dreamers! What limitations does a King have within his kingdom? What limitations does a dreamer have within His dreams?  Everyone in your life can either encourage you or discourage you from becoming a King.  In the wrong hands, you can become anything depending on who touches you.  Many of us become what others want us to become.  Many have become the complete opposite of what Gods intent was for their lives.  Most children become what their parents influence them to become.  The majority of times if you encourage a child to become a police officer that child will grow up to be exactly that.  In the wrong hands you can become the King you were not intended to be and you may lose your Divine Rights.  One of my favorite pastors preached a sermon on “Becoming a King,” and he said; “Each one of you has a greatness hidden inside of you.  And the object of successful living is to release that greatness before you die.”  There is a King Anointed by God inside of you.  If you do not release that greatness from within you, if you don’t find the King within you, you will grow to never understand the beauties of life.  You will grow old, bitter, and become a very unpleasant person.

The picture that Apostle Paul draws out for us in Romans 3:23 is a picture of a marksman shooting his arrow directly at the center of a target.  On our own we all fall short of the Glory of God.  We all fall short of the target that God purposed us for. But because of who God is, and because of what Christ did for us on that cross, we his children receive the gift of God and that is a glorious life eternally with Jesus. 

I did not know that I was going to become who I am now.  I thought I was always going to be a drunk, addicted to this world and its pleasures.  I did not know that I was anointed to be a King.  Friends there is a gap between us and God, it is called sin.  But once we learn who we are in Christ, once we realize that ‘We are’ because ‘He is,’ then that gap that separates us from God will begin to fill with the blood of Jesus.  It will begin to fill with the love and grace of Jesus giving us a way to God. For the wages of sin is death!! But the gift that God offers is eternal life through Jesus Christ!  We’re created for so much more than we actually know!! Within us God placed a Divine King to live out His Dreams so that we may dine with Him in His Heavenly Kingdom!!