"Plan your work and work your plan". This common-sense strategy is apparently God's strategy as well:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (The same-KJV) was in the beginning with God." ( John 1:1-2 )
To loosely paraphrase these verses, "In the beginning was The Plan, and The Plan was with God, and The Plan was God's". The Plan was fully formed in God's mind long before His creative energy formed all that now exists. His Plan was the blueprint for His work; He planned his work and then worked His Plan.
The Plan came to fruition in a manger in Bethlehem over two millennia ago: "And the Word (Plan) became flesh" ( John 1:14 ). The greatest irony and tragedy of the ages is the misunderstanding of The Plan: "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him" ( John 1:10 ). The Plan was the focal point of all God's creation (Colossians 1:16-17) and yet His most prized creation ignored, rejected, and rebelled against The Plan.
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." ( John 1:12-13 )
To receive The Plan is to allow The Plan to work in and through us. As those who have received The Plan it has become The Plan for all the work of our lives.
We have been elevated to the most privileged status of all as the recipients and workers of The Plan. God has adopted us into His very own family and now carries out His priorities and initiatives through us. As such we are also able to declare, "the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel" ( Mark 1:15 ). The Plan has been and is being fleshed out in us and the presence of the King indicates that the kingdom itself is now in our midst to some degree.
The plan for our work is the ultimate Plan and that Plan is being worked out as we surrender to its great priority. Perhaps our important refrigerator or bathroom mirror reminder needs to be the simple statement, "Work 'The Plan'". What will our lives and schedules look like today if we earnestly ask God to work our The Plan in and through us?
Steve
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (The same-KJV) was in the beginning with God." ( John 1:1-2 )
To loosely paraphrase these verses, "In the beginning was The Plan, and The Plan was with God, and The Plan was God's". The Plan was fully formed in God's mind long before His creative energy formed all that now exists. His Plan was the blueprint for His work; He planned his work and then worked His Plan.
The Plan came to fruition in a manger in Bethlehem over two millennia ago: "And the Word (Plan) became flesh" ( John 1:14 ). The greatest irony and tragedy of the ages is the misunderstanding of The Plan: "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him" ( John 1:10 ). The Plan was the focal point of all God's creation (Colossians 1:16-17) and yet His most prized creation ignored, rejected, and rebelled against The Plan.
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." ( John 1:12-13 )
To receive The Plan is to allow The Plan to work in and through us. As those who have received The Plan it has become The Plan for all the work of our lives.
We have been elevated to the most privileged status of all as the recipients and workers of The Plan. God has adopted us into His very own family and now carries out His priorities and initiatives through us. As such we are also able to declare, "the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel" ( Mark 1:15 ). The Plan has been and is being fleshed out in us and the presence of the King indicates that the kingdom itself is now in our midst to some degree.
The plan for our work is the ultimate Plan and that Plan is being worked out as we surrender to its great priority. Perhaps our important refrigerator or bathroom mirror reminder needs to be the simple statement, "Work 'The Plan'". What will our lives and schedules look like today if we earnestly ask God to work our The Plan in and through us?
Steve
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