Each of us determines our own path. I set my own goals and I choose to fully align myself with FATHER and get life’s best through HIM rather than through man’s wisdom and understanding. As I proceed, I have joy which the world does not understand for their joy is found in the temporal rather than the everlasting. I am FATHER’S best in the area of my calling because HE created me with all the gifts needed to fulfill the path HE put me on. As I spread HIS Love I receive HIS blessings in my life and how sweet they are. I am content no matter what state I am in. HE created me in HIS likeness and thus as I mature I begin to reflect HIS Character toward others.
The only person who can limit me is me because I make my own decisions. Even my bad decisions are beneficial for my training and HIS grace and mercy prevail as HE instructs me through HIS teaching lesson. When I chose Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I chose life. In John 10, Jesus spoke:
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
The Greek word for “life” is zōē. It means the “GOD kind of life”, or life as FATHER intends it through HIS Love. We are to life life to its fullness rather than accept man’s definition of life. When I say yes to FATHER’S Divine Intent then my life glorifies HIM. No other path produces life but instead leads toward death and destruction.
FATHER allows both vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor to coexist foe we each have a choice. Little do the vessels of dishonor realize that they play part in the overall plan. FATHER in HIS Wisdom is able to make use of all whom HE created. In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus spoke:
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
We have the choice of what we plant in our hearts. If we plants seeds of life and love then we will reap both. If we plant seeds of death, death is what we will reap. FATHER tells us to “choose you this day whom you will serve” and I have chosen HIM, HIS Son, and have received HIS Holy Spirit. The disciples asked Jesus to explain the parable above and He spoke:
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.
39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
You can be sure that HIS words will come to pass and those who have rejected Him have also rejected FATHER. They will go through a purging process and be refined as well. The only question is “when”? I chose to go through the door of Jesus Christ and live life more abundantly as He defines it, not man. Each day we have the opportunity to proceed closer to FATHER or turn away toward the trappings of the world. Let us choose daily to remain on the straight, narrow path toward full intimacy with Our Heavenly Father. Let nothing distract us in this endeavor, let us choose life more abundantly.