Created with Purpose

No matter where you came from or where you are now, the Lord created you with purpose. He loves you and has a plan uniquely designed with you in mind.

There have been so many times through life that I did not understand. When I was nine years old, my mother, siblings and I traveled from Ohio to North Carolina to visit Nannie for Christmas. However, parents divorced on that visit. I never returned to my Ohio home. My extended Christmas vacation lasted forty five years. Well, God redirected my path and allowed me to grow up, marry and settle in my NC state of birth. As painful as that was in childhood, hindsight offered clearer vision.

Many years later, the Lord used the times that I remembered crying and longing for my toys and belongings left in Ohio, my friends and other family, to empathize with the many foster children who came through our home. He granted me healing from that period and an understanding of the depth of childhood trauma before we received twenty-two foster children and adopted two as our own. Those children experienced much more than I did, but that fragile time built a compassion and understanding in me to be a mother to those who desperately needed one, if even for a season.

There isn’t always a visible correlation from things that we may not understand to things we experience later in life. Full understanding of many things will only happen when we meet Jesus face to face. However, we can trust Ephesians 2:10, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Is there anything that God wants you to walk in today? Even though God prepared it, He wants His children to move forward in obedience with steps of faith to experience the fullness of His blessings. Even our most hurtful moments can have great purpose with the Lord at work.Walk in that thing that came to mind today with Christ-confidence. He will show you one step at a time.