Missing the Mark
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
We are all sinners. Sinners by chance, and by choice.
To sin means to “miss the mark”…..we have missed the mark for the purpose of God for our lives.
Revelation 4:11 “Thou art Worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.”
God has a purpose for each of us…..not just a work or ministry….but real meaning for our days, here…..personally.
I have found that one day can be just like another….one week like last week….and so on; until time has passed, and we look back, wondering what we have accomplished….
One day, we will go before the Lord Jesus, as we are……and then our work that we have accomplished toward being conformed to His image (character), will be rewarded.
Sin is our desire to rule ourselves….to have the final say, in the way things are going to go, in our lives.
To say who will be in our lives,……and their importance.
To say or decide our place….
….when in reality, the only decision left man, after choosing sin……is “whosoever will, may come” (Revelation 22:17)….to Christ, or not.
It started with the temptation of the devil, “…and ye shall be as gods…”.
When in reality, they became like the beasts of the field….relying more on “instinct”, then on faith.
(Running away from God when they knew they were naked, instead of toward Him for forgiveness; which faith would have lead them to do.)
The purpose of God for us is to know Him, Whom to know aright is to have eternal life:
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
And in that knowledge, and eternal life (which is a condition of life, here and now, as well as in heaven, for ever);
John 1:12 “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:”
We can “abide” in Him, again……we can become…..in His Purpose…..all He wanted for us at the beginning…..the glory, the place with Him, the Will of the Almighty, worked in us and through us forever.
John 17:23 “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.”
Let’s stop missing the mark for our lives…..today, tonight, tomorrow….and on through this next year and until we stand in His Presence.
Let us seek His Pleasure….determination for us…..Let Him rule in us.
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