This is an essay I wrote a while back for school. It is simple and short but I love the ideas expressed in it. They do battle against discontment and an aimless wondering about God's will for your life.
and I am quite sure I belong exactly where I am. God has placed me right here
and that is the most perfect place for me. He knows where I will grow best and
where my talents will be best used. I and every other Christian can trust that if
we are obeying God and living according to His will we are exactly where we
belong even if we are uncomfortable and feel out of place. This makes decisions
like should I work here or should I work there or do we belong in this church or
that church a lot simpler. If you are obeying God, where you are is where you
belong.
Of course there is a sense in which no Christian really belongs in “the
world.” We, having been redeemed by God through His Son Jesus Christ, do not
belong at all. We are other wordly, strangers and pilgrims to the children of
wrath and to this world. We once were children of wrath ourselves and belonged
in this world but now our citizenship is in heaven. We fit in better with the people
of God who are strangers to us in this world than we do with friends who are
lost. This is what the Spirit of God does. Our real country is the Kingdom of God
and we should not feel comfortable living as the world does and loving as the
world does. We should want to live in obedience to God, not in disobedience like
the world, and we should live like the citizens of God’s kingdom that we are
where He placed us in this world.
Laura
1 comment:
Wow. Excellent Laura - I love it when y'all put your school writings on here - then I get to read them too! And y'all do such a great job.
Lots of Love!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
-Megan
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