IS THERE SOMETHING God placed within your heart that you have kept secret or protected, wondering for years if you would ever be able to accomplish it? The Lord has brought you to this day as He brought Esther to her day—for such a time as this.
Perhaps you have already accomplished something for God. But He has more planned for your life. You are not “washed up” or “over the hill.” Regardless of your age or past achievements, your best is yet to come!
With God, each day is different. He never allows Himself to be put in a box. Some days, there are quiet times. On other days, there are hilarious times. And some days are worshipful times. Just be ready to receive from Him whatever He wants to give you and in whatever manner He wants to give it.
I want to recount to you a story I heard. There was a young woman named Brenda who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was afraid of heights, she went with a group of climbers to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on her gear, took hold of the rope, and started up the face of the rock.
She soon reached a ledge where she could take a breather, and she paused because she was a little nervous. As she was hanging there, the safety rope shifted and snapped across her face. One of her contact lenses was knocked from her eye.
If you will totally rely on the Lord your God, you will accomplish what He has called you to do.
You may not know how that feels, but I wear contact lenses, so I know! There Brenda was—on a rock ledge with hundreds of feet above her, and hundreds of feet below her—without her contact lens. She began searching the ledge as best she could, but her contact lens was nowhere to be found.
Brenda was far from home, out of her comfort zone to be sure, and now her sight was blurred. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to God that she would find her lens. When Brenda finally reached the top of the mountain, a friend examined her eye and then her clothing to see if the lens was there. It was still nowhere to be found.
Brenda became somewhat despondent. As she was waiting for the rest of her group to reach the top of the cliff, she started praying again. She looked across the range of mountains and said to the Lord, “The Word says that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth [2 Chron. 16:9]. Lord, You can see all of these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me find it.”
Finally, Brenda and her group went down to the bottom of the cliff. At the bottom, a new party of climbers was waiting to go up. Someone in the new group shouted, “Hey! Has anyone lost a contact lens?”
It was amazing enough that someone had actually found a contact lens. Those things are tiny! But it was even more amazing how this climber found the contact lens. As he was about to climb, he saw an ant slowly moving across the face of the rock. The ant was carrying the contact lens!
Brenda told her father, a cartoonist, about her story. He drew an ant carrying a contact lens, and the caption beneath the cartoon read, “Lord, I don’t know why You want me to carry this thing. I can’t eat it, and it’s awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I’ll carry it for You.”
Like the ant in that illustration, you may not fully understand God’s plan for your life. But His reasons, His ways, and His thoughts are always best. He knows exactly why He has called you to do what He has called you to do. Remember, God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called! If you will totally rely on the Lord your God, you will accomplish what He has called you to do.
Let’s look at one of the greatest biblical examples of trusting God. One of my favorite stories about Abraham—a man who, even though richly blessed by God, still served Him faithfully—is found in Genesis 12:1–4. Here, God told Abraham to leave his home country and go to a land He would show him. And Abraham obeyed the Lord and departed.
I guarantee you that most of us would not have been as obedient as Abraham! But he left his family and all that was familiar in the land of Haran. I’m sure it was quite a job to pack everything that belonged to him and his wife, but Abraham obeyed God.
Abraham didn’t ask, “God, what are Your plans? Before I decide whether I want to leave, can You tell me Your 10-year plan? What about Your 5-year plan?” But Abraham said, “Okay, I’ll go. I’ll start out in faith and in obedience to you.”
As Abraham went, God began to lead him in the way he should go. He didn’t know God’s final purpose for him. But we can see in many Bible passages how Abraham’s obedience worked out for him.
If God is with us, we can boldly say about our life, “The best is yet to come.” We can learn to lean on Him and trust Him to help us find and successfully fulfill His individual calling for us. Like Abraham, we really can learn to totally rely on God!
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Lynette Hagin
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