TEXT: ESTHER 4:16 (CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE) (He will deliver His people)
This book is about the “great deliverance” of the Jews from extermination during the time after the Babylonian captivity.
Have you ever given thought to why you were born or what your role is in life?
During my childhood, I had thoughts of what I would be professionally when I grew up. I wondered who I would marry and have children with, etc. So I began to plan my life out.
- Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
We may make our plans, but God has the last word.
- Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
You can make plans, but God directs your action. Despite your plans, God has His plans for you as well. It’s called “destiny”, meaning your future or pre-ordained path of your life was ordered beforehand by God!
Proverbs 16 lets us know that everything the LORD has made has its destiny, and the destiny of the wicked is destruction.
- Romans 8:29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
It is not just that God knew that you would exist or knew some facts about you; it was people/persons whom He foreknew – those He thought of in a personal saving relationship. He “predestined” meaning that He planned they (you & me) would ultimately be like Him, conformed to the image of His Son.
God has a plan for you and me. He puts us in the right place at the right time to serve Him and accomplish His will. At the same time, let’s be clear that Satan has a plan for you too. He hates God and His people and is always on the scene. He lurks about so as to steal, kill, and destroy your influence and stop you from achieving God’s intended purpose for your life. But “it’s your destiny, your choice”.