13 Sep They’re On Your Head (Quit trying to find your purpose and let your purpose find you) PART 1
Have you ever been searching for your glasses and could not find them anywhere? After an extensive search, out of desperation you finally ask your spouse, “Have you seen my glasses?!” To which she glibly responds, “They’re on your head!” All this time you were looking for something you couldn’t see but yet was in very close proximity!
I remember when I was a young single man just starting in ministry and I had a strong desire to be married. I remember looking around the local church where I grew up spiritually and to my chagrin I could not think of one girl in the church I was even remotely interested in (of course, they weren’t interested in me…so it was definitely a two way street!).
It just looked hopeless…yet I knew God had called me to that church. So I simply decided to be faithful right where I was and trust God to bring my future mate to me. Sure enough, when God’s timing was right He connected Anne and me together and 32 years later…I am so thankful I chose to be faithful right where He called me! I could have wandered off in pursuit of something He was going to bring to me!
When I think back on my early years of desiring to be in ministry, it looked like nothing would ever open up for me. However, I knew God had called me to my local church for a long season, so I just decided to be faithful right where I was! Finally a ministry job opened up for me there at my local church but it only paid $5/hour and I was 26 years old! However, I gladly took it and faithfully served there at my local church for $5/hour for two years until I got married. I am so thankful to God that Anne was willing to marry a 28-year-old man making $5/hour!
When it came to both my mate and my ministry, this principle was so true: When I searched for the will of God, it was always elusive. When I was faithful where I was…the will of God found me!
The Bible tells us, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Gen. 2:15-22).
Of course this is the story of God’s first “Bachelor and Bachelorette,” but you can find a biblical pattern here that will speak powerfully to you today!
Join us next week as we continue this series…