Daily Devotional

-June 29, 2021-

Good morning, happy Tuesday,

-God Perfects His Plan For Our Lives-

“The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.”

(Psalm 138:8).

God’s plan for our lives began even before the foundation of the world. He knew everything about us even before we were born. He knew we would be saved and be His children. This what the Bible calls God’s foreknowledge. Romans 8:29 says, “Whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that we might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

God’s goal for us is to be like Jesus; His plan for us is working toward that end. Therefore all the trials we go through, all the difficulties, sorrows, miracles, and blessings are for our growth. God has begun His work in us and will perfect it. The word perfect means to complete it. David says, “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.” Nothing happens to us by accident or by chance.

The Apostle Paul wrote a similar message in Philippians 1:6, “Being confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Each of us is a masterpiece that God is working on until we go to be with the Lord. There are two things we must remember: He is not finished you yet and He is not finished with me yet. We must be patient with each other and with ourselves. Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith.

It is essential that we follow God’s plan, surrender fully to His will, and obey Him on a daily basis. We may not understand what God is doing, but we know that He is working on us. He is the Potter and we are the clay. The clay cannot say to the potter, “Why have you made me this way?”

We all look forward to the day we will be fully like Christ. 1 John 3:2 says, “Beloved, now we are the children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” The hymn writer John Darby wrote, “And is it so—I shall be like Thy Son? Is this the grace which He for me has won? Father of glory, (thought beyond all thought!)—In glory, to His own blest likeness brought!”

May the Lord help us to say with David, “Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.” We are the works of His hands, His special treasure. We are each unique, made just as God wanted us to be.

Have a blessed day in God’s plan. God is in the process of conforming us into the image of Christ. Stay safe and healthy.

In His grace,

Dean