Preparation
Preparation: is defined as the action or process of making ready or being made ready for use or consideration
Our lives are filled with opportunities for preparation. It’s how we embrace these opportunities that will help to formulate how we think and act in our everyday lives. So what do I mean?
God always has a plan! Just like with our move to mom’s house last August. To the outsider someone might look and see what we did as crazy and without purpose. We listed it and moved out of our 4 bedroom fully remodeled house, in 4 days. It was on the market the next week and sold the first day it was shown.
God had a plan for us, to pick up (CA)Prop 13 keeping our taxes low for the future. Others not knowing this didn’t understand why we acted so quickly but we knew and that’s what mattered.
The move was slightly chaotic but we had a peace in our hearts because God was in control and we knew it.
When Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords came to the earth and was born in a cave/manger in Bethlehem to the outsider it could seem like it was unplanned. But God was in control and that was all that mattered.
When it was decided from the very beginning that God would be born in the flesh to die to save the world, God knew exactly how it needed to happen. God even gave clues throughout time of what was to come and yet people didn’t understand. God knew where the birth needed to occur- where Jesus needed to be born, baptized, beaten, die, buried and rise from the dead.
He had foretold The Birth of Jesus in the Book of Micah
2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me One who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. ” Micah 5:2 (NIV)
Then about Christ’s purpose in Isaiah
1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Isa 40:1-3 (NIV)
1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed. Isa 53:1-5 (NIV)
God had a plan and it was all prepared.
Just like He had a plan for Jesus the Christ, He has a plan for you and me. Stop looking at the outsiders for direction if accepting Him is the right thing to do, they may not understand. Look to the One Who has The Plan and step out and make a choice to join Him along with millions of others who have accepted His Plan for their lives.
God has brought you to this time in your life, He has tugged at your heart and is calling your name. He has made all of the preparations, all you need to do is accept them and Him as Lord and go along for the ride of your life, right into Eternity!
Through the desert of your dry and empty heart God has prepared a Way for you by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savor- The Living Water. He will freely flow in you; giving you New life and power through His very Spirit living within you. He will give you Victory over the circumstances of this life and death onto Life Everlasting.
Prepare ye the Way of the Lord! Come Lord Jesus Come!!
