Is God a God of goals.? What all is God trying to accomplish here on this earth? He created the heavens and the earth and then He rested from His creating work. Gen.2:1-4 As I look around our planet I don’t see God doing any new creating or repairs to the planet He created for us.
As one of God’s creation I now have goals all the way through life. I live a life of goals. …. To graduate from high school …. to buy a car ….. to find a spouse …. to find a profession …. to acquire a form of lodging …. to raise my kids …. to save up for my retirement …. to relax and enjoy my retirement years …. to hopefully go to heaven when I die … As I look at my goals, they all come to an end. I accomplish a goal and that’s it. Then it’s on to the next.
Since God isn’t creating or maintaining this planet He created, what is He up to? Just sitting back and watching all of us make a mess of things? No, God isn’t into goals. He is into relationship with us who He created. We miss the main purpose of His creation. We are supposed to be in relationship with Him and then we take care of each other and His creation.
A few years back during a very difficult time of my life when my goals seemed to be disappearing, I heard the Lord say to me very clearly. “Don’t hinder or mess up what I am attempting to do through all this heart ache you are in.” However, He didn’t tell me what it was that He was up to. I took this to mean that God had a goal of restoring, or healing, or conquering the enemy or some great goal.! I just had to wait and see what goal He was gong to accomplish and bring to pass. Go get em God!
There was just one little thing that He did tell me. “Just walk with Me..” So, every day I would ask… What is it we are going after today? I don’t see much happening but I’m here to help You with the goal.! Then one day a couple of months back the pastor’s wife came up to me and said; “You have been faithfully doing all that the Lord has been asking of you over these past few years. Your time of enjoying what He has for you has begun. Well done!” and she gave me a hug ... For a few days I was bewildered because I hadn’t seen God’s goal getting accomplished. Hmmm …..
Then it hit me.. Meaning the Holy Spirit spoke to me ….. I had added too many words and my thoughts to what God had originally told me. His point and plan for me was to “just walk with Me” and I will lead you into truth and relational maturity that you do not currently have. Wow,,,, I have matured a lot and life is so much fun just walking every day with Jesus. We do all of life together, the sad hard times as well as the good times. Together we bless a lot of people and in that I am blessed!! I now realize just how important our relationship is!
God is not a God of goals that come to an end. He is the God of relationship that has no end. So, how do I live? I live in daily relationship with Him. “Enoch walked with God every day and didn’t die here because the Lord took him on into eternal life!!”Heb.11:5 My relationship with Jesus never ends! WoW!!