I found my destiny

 The Bible says in Hebrews 4:10 that we enter into the rest that God provides for His children by ceasing from our own works. What are, “our own works?” Our own works are simply following our own desires. That’s what always removes us from the rest of God.

The Book of James asks, “What causes unrest, frustration, and strife among you? Does it not come from the desires that war in your own bodies? You desire and have not; you kill, and desire to have and cannot obtain; you fight (struggle) and war, yet you have not because you ask not. You ask and receive not be­cause you ask with the wrong motive that you may use what you ask for accord­ing to your own desires.”--James  4:1

Unrest is not our God-given destiny--not when God’s Word says that there remains a perfect rest for the children of God and that we are to labor to enter into that rest. If we don’t, the Bible says we become an example of unbelief.

The only way we can fulfill our God-given destiny is to enter into God’s com­plete rest and cease from our own works, worries and fears.

Our destiny is not to be found in the temporal external things of this world but in the internal eternal things of Christ. Christ is our God-given destiny and Christ according to the Bible lives within. If we are in Christ and Christ is in us, then our God-given destiny has already been realized.

We no longer need to pay heed to the multitude of voices in our mind that beckons, “Go here and go there--do this and do that.” Our destiny has arrived! Our God-given destiny has come!  Our life is made complete in Christ! Too long we have followed the unending quest to reach outside goals--goals that only move us further God’s will is that we cease from our struggles, that we cease from striving for purpose and destiny in material things and enter into the rest that has been prepared for us before the foundation of the world.

The Bible says that our own desires do nothing to bring us into this rest, only that they keep us out. Yes, the Book of James does say that faith without works is dead, but what is that work? Jesus said what that work is in John 6:29. When asked what work the people could do to work the work of God, Jesus said, “This is the WORK of God that you believe on Him whom the Father has sent.”

So there is your God-given destiny and the work God wants you to do. You can believe on the Son of God and enter into His perfect rest.

Isn’t that great?

 Warren D. Rogers