The American culture, more than maybe any culture, is driven by the future. And why shouldn’t it be? It was the very reason so many people migrated here. The American dream. We are a land called the great melting pot. Our very roots were grown from the hope of the future.
As a child growing up in our culture, everything revolved around the next step. We must perform a certain way to make it into an elite University. We must get the degree, to get the job, to get us to retirement as quickly and richly as possible. Plans are what form the basis for our future. We need to have an air-tight plan. So as a Christian in our culture, what I find myself doing is making plans even though my life was purchased by Christ.
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." 1 Cor 6:19-20
We make plans and try to pray them into being as if God is a genie. Surely God will honor my plans if I have fit him into them. How often do we ask God for His plan and then wait for the answer? By designing our own future we place ourselves in the position that should be held by God. James calls it an “evil arrogance.”
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." James 4:13-16
So today, though there are many things that we here at Casas want for our ministry’s future, let’s pray that God’s desires and plans would come to fruition. Pray that God would grant us peace by revealing His heart to us even at small steps at a time. Pray that we would trust God to be the leader of our ministry and our lives.
God we ask that Your kingdom come, that Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…
-Justin
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