Recognizing Your God Ordained Destiny Verses Your Own…
Matthew 1:18-22 (Amplified Bible)
18Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place under these circumstances: When His mother Mary had been promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant [through the power] of the Holy Spirit.
19And her [promised] husband Joseph, being a just and upright man and not willing to expose her publicly and to shame and disgrace her, decided to repudiate and dismiss (divorce) her quietly and secretly.
20But as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as] your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy Spirit.
21She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from [a]failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].
22All this took place that it might be fulfilled which the Lord had spoken through the prophet,
As I recently sat back and did my year and life in review, I realized how many times I may have missed God or God trying to get me somewhere or out and away from some things, but because of how it looked at the time I neglected to yield to God and recognize my destiny. I was viewing it through natural eyes instead of the eyes of the Spirit, that made my vantage point skewed at best. It is so easy to become distracted especially when you factor in what people may think or how it may appear in this venue we abide in which is the earthly realm. There have been times God gave me clues that people were not for me, but I ignored them, because I heard everyone around me talking about their Boo or how good a man or person they thought this individual was. There have been times when God said stretch in my giving or give to someone in a situation worse than my own, and immediately I thought of my own laundry list of things, and hearing people say you better take care of you, because no one else will. Well that is a lie; God will take care of me, better than I can take care of myself. Often we do not realize God is setting us up for His next move or for destiny, purpose and expansion, and so I have had to learn to walk by faith and not by sight.
Imagine Joseph, here he is betrothed to Mary, engaged if you will, and she drops the bomb on him that she is pregnant, and who she claimed the Father to be was crazier then the thought of his virgin bride being not so much of a virgin.. Joseph was a lot like all of us, he knew he was a righteous man, a man of standards, a good man, and his thoughts were I am above being in the mix of some mess. I am sure he was thinking, what are people going to say, and how is it going to look, if I believe this story or take this challenge, I will be a laughing stock. But the one thing He was missing was that God was in the mix and when God is in the mix He is the ultimate match for any mess or misunderstanding. You see when God places a calling on your life He can take a mess and make it a miracle. He can take some thing broken and make it something beautiful. But often it is hard to see anything but the mess, or what we thought should be the end result. It was only when Joseph could settle into His God given destiny and purpose that God could use Him to accomplish His will. The focus was no longer on man, his words, thoughts or agenda, but it became on the eternal magnificent of the moment God chose him. It is in theses moments that our agenda becomes subservient to the will of God being done in our lives, and the reward surely outweighs the talk, the criticism, the struggle (the cost).
Stop looking at how you think things should go and start allowing God His flow. Allow Him to use you for His glory and to relay to others His story. A story that displays His love sent down from Heaven above.
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