God's Goals

The other issue that keeps coming up in talks with others and in my own heart is what God's goals are. We often live as if God's goals were to get a ministry going, or to finish a task our pastor gave us, or to get some kind of bump up the spiritual latter in the church leadership structure. No way...God has us where we are for one soul purpose: to get to know HIM better. If it takes sending you to another country like it did with me, or giving you a new ministry challenge, or even taking one away...it's not about the actual thing that's going on...it's about your heart, it's about you seeing another aspect of His character in a new and living way. Another lesser goal...both of these pertaining to the first and second greatest commandments...is people. He sometimes puts me into a place, a ministry, a job, even a hardship so that I can be with people who will help me know Him better...and people that I can help know Him better...that includes especially the people we DON'T get along with. Any time we are unable to complete a task or get along with a person in our sphere of influence it brings us to our knees in dependance upon Him. When we HAVE to be dependant we GET to know HIM!