Walking in the path laid out...

THE WORD IN LENT

Wednesday, 3rd week in Lent - March 23, 2022

Deuteronomy 4: 1, 5-9; Matthew 5: 17-19

Life is a gift, it is not something that we earn for ourselves! If it is a gift, it is received; if it is received, it is given! Life is given and if it is given, it is given for a purpose! The most loving sign of God's care for us is expressed in God's words through Jeremiah: 'For I know the plans that I have for you!' (Jer 29:11). God has a plan, God has a purpose, all that I need to do is just walk in the way that the Lord shows! 

There are times when the way shown agrees with my wishes and I am enthusiastic about it. But when the way shown does not agree with my whims and fancies, I begin to whine and complain! How childish of me! However, that is the reality, and I need to be aware of this tendency of mine, interpreting everything to my convenience and justifying all my negligences with reasons and excuses. 

Obeying the Lord will not be a grudging act, if only I understand it is the Lord who gives me life and God alone knows what I can make of it. Once I begin to absolutise my wishes in life, set up my own races, create my own pathways, hold on to my own goals as if nothing else matters in life, I am bound to undergo frustrations and failures. But the moment I surrender my life in the hands of the Lord and wish to live the way that the Lord leads, seek after goals that the Lord sets, achieve purposes that the Lord offers me, then I will have life, life in all its fullness. 

It is in obeying the Lord that I find the fullness of my life, my life is from the Lord and its purpose is known to no one better than the Lord.