Everyone wants to know the whole story of their purpose for construction.  Lord tell me right now everything that I will be given, all the obstacles I must face and the outcome that I might make a choice to follow, obey or bug out. Fortunately for God your purpose is a bit more valuable than allowing you to review the role before signing on and fortunate for you that it will be the greatest thing you could ever do.

We don’t find our purpose for God’s Kingdom by demanding a dossier or timeline.  Apparently we find out where we are supposed to be by being in so places that are not the right fit and discovering the difference? Besides what fun is there in finding out what you are going to achieve before achieving or failing at it, that is frankly rather limited human imagineering.  Don’t you truly want the impossible? Don’t you really want to do something with mystery, intrigue, unreachable odds and the opportunity to either achieve great things or go down in a blaze of glory in the attempt.  And by blaze of Glory I mean the glory that you bring to the Lord’s name in your demonstrated surrender, willingness and courage to continue through the unbeatable odds.

This is not the simple version of life, where you live, you do some stuff and then you pass on leaving a legacy for your kids.  This is the role for which you were crafted.  That exact part that is built upon all the trials, successes, failures, intrinsic characteristics and frailties of the person your life has produced meeting up with the specific set of trials to which those experiences make you the one person to overcome them.  It is really that type of story, one that was written by God in Glory before the beginning of time, casting you in a specific role which you can accept or deny up front and it still may occur against your strongest disagreements.  You see this is about God’s Glory and though my head is hard I at some point realized that “I” was the created thing for His Purpose.

A tough position for an egoist or power control freak, to realize that this life supposedly led by you in joyous realization of power and authority was always operating at God’s design. That is the hardest thing about being a servant is deciding to accept the role or fight the Hand of God in which case you lose anyway.  The joy of surrender in this position is sweet, not like accepting your fate and being treated like slave labor.  It is an inheritance, an adoption into the Kingdom of God and carries with it the greatest Love you will ever know, the Love of Almighty God for His Children.

Somewhere along the way many lost the desire to know the end from the beginning, determining that they mystery and the surrender much more complex reward for a life lived according the God’s Will.  Do you like mystery?  Do you enjoy complex riddles or situations for which the plot may not be known until after all the action passes?  That is this light yoke life of service to the Almighty King of the Universe.  One moment you think you know and the next you realize how little you ever did.

In Jesus’ name I pray that you make a decision for service to the King and then live this life to the fullest, in service, and joy, provision, challenge and Love.