Pursue Intimacy, Not Destiny

Are you trying to figure out what to do with your life?  Do you have a five year plan?  Do you have a ten year plan?  Or do you like some of us have no idea what to do with your life?

I would say that I am a man who lives his life in the middle of all of those questions.  There are some days when it is clear to me what the next 5, 10 or even 25 years hold for me.  Then I wake up the next day with the same questions rolling around in my head.  "What are you doing with your life?  What are you going to do after you graduate from college?"

I flip flop between knowing and not knowing what the future will hold.  This is sometimes a frustrating place to be.  The closer I get to graduation the more intense this frustration becomes and the weight of the decisions I will have to make seems to get all the more heavier.

I met a man once who was a great man of prayer.  His name was Wes Tullis.  Wes told me that the goal of the Christian life was opposite that of the pressures of American culture.  The goal of a Christian needs to be to pursue intimacy, not destiny.

It is easy to get caught in a cycle where we continually ask the Lord what the next step is, or what He wants us to do with our lives.  If we continually live our lives this way we can miss the journey of intimacy with the Lord.

Intimacy is a "here and now" kind of thing.  It is not something that we can live off of in our past or wait for in the future.  The only place we can have intimacy with the Lord is right here and right now.

I felt encouraged to pursue the intimacy that God has made available to all of us through the sacrifice of Jesus.  I also know that God orders the steps of the righteous and if I commit my ways to Him he will lead me to the places I need to be.

If we will chase hard after Jesus and follow Him were He goes, we will be living our destiny right now.  We won’t have to look forward to finding it someday.

John 17:3 (Jesus talking) "This is eternal life, that they might know thee, the one true God and Jesus, whom You have sent."  If eternal life is actively knowing God, and I can actively know God right now, then I can experience eternal life with Christ today.  That is the destiny of all man kind.  Oh that we would all receive revelation of this fact.  My destiny is to be with Christ, to live in Him.  And my destiny can only be experienced in the breath that I am taking right now.

Prayer:

Jesus, thank you for your grace that bids me come.  Thank you for the revelation of my destiny in you.  Help me not to waste the breaths you give me chasing my vain ambitions.  Help me to pursue intimacy with you with all the strength and dedication I have.  Jesus enliven my heart.  Pour out the fire of your love in my heart and help me to chase you with reckless abandon.  Teach me to be a man that is satisfied in you.  I ask all these things in the powerful name of Jesus.

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