It's Not Over! | The Worshipper's Thought of the Day

Our lives are comprised of the favorable as well as the unfavorable. Often times, the unfavorable overshadows the favorable, so much so that we wonder how GOD could possibly get the glory from it all. Well, friends, let's consider Ephesians 1:11:

"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predistinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"

What must become real to us is that GOD is committed to His purpose for our lives, even when we aren't. GOD brings (or worketh) all things--that means EVERYTHING--together to conform them to His purpose for our lives. Therefore, our mistakes are NOT more powerful than our respective purposes. While this does not permit us to live any kind of way, it does encourage and edify the broken and contrite TO KNOW that IT'S NOT OVER. GOD's purpose for you STILL stands despite your shortcomings. No matter what you've done, no matter how bad off you may be even now...GOD REMAINS COMMITTED to the purpose for which He created you. Now that's good news!

So if you find yourself mourning, confess out loud and on purpose the following based on Isaiah 61:3:

"I receive from You, GOD, beauty for my ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness affecting me; that I might be called by others a tree of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that You, O GOD, might be glorified. HALLELUJAH!!!"