YOU WERE PLANNED FOR GOD’S PLEASURE

This is from the reading I did today, from “The Purpose Driven Life.” This chapter really made me smile as I read it today.

CHAPTER 8

Purpose #1 YOU WERE PLANNED FOR GOD’S PLEASURE

* They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61:3 (NIV)
* You created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created. Revelation 4:11 (NLT)
* For the LORD takes delight in His people: He crowns the humble with salvation. Psalm 149:4 (NIV)

Wow, God created us for His pleasure, not to rule over us, or to bully us, but because it pleased Him to do so. Wow, that gives me a warm fuzzy. After reading chapter 8 of the PDL, I know that my first purpose in life is to bring enjoyment to God with my life. When we begin to fully understand this truth, there is no more room for feeling insignificant, unimportant, or like you have no purpose in life. Just this morning, before reading this, on the way to take my son to school, I was pouting inside about feeling unimportant as a stay at home mom, asking God, “What is my Purpose, it can’t be just this?” Only for Him to reveal this truth to me in today’s reading of “The Purpose Driven Life.”

From the scriptures above, we know that we were created for God’s pleasure and his glory. One thing we can do to bring God glory and pleasure is to abide in him, to live every moment for Him as an act of Worship. Something as little as cleaning your house can be done to the glory of God, and for his pleasure…how? Place it before God as an offering, keep your thoughts constantly on Him, and perform your daily tasks with an awareness of His presence.

Rick Warren said this about his wife: “When I first fell in love with my wife, I thought of her constantly: while eating breakfast, driving to school, attending class, waiting in line at the market, pumping gas – I could not stop thinking about this woman! I often talked to myself about her and thought about all the things I loved about her. This helped me feel close to Kay even though we lived several hundred miles apart and attended different collages. By constantly thinking of her, I was abiding in her love. This is what real worship is all about – falling in love with Jesus.” (Page 67 The Purpose Driven Life)

Ask yourself this daily: “What common task could I do for the glory of God, and do as if I were doing it directly for Jesus?”