“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.” Ephesians 1:5
I read an Advent devotion recently and it had the “P” word that always causes my throat to tighten up; “Predestination”. There are two words that I find it easy to just sit and listen when discussion within a group of Christians begins; predestination and baptism. Both of those words hold the reason why you, these Haitian kids and me are here today…and possibly tomorrow. God wanted you to become part of his family.
In these verses from Ephesians, the Apostle Paul tells us that ‘God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ’. You, these Haitian kids and me are a spiritual family, God’s family, and we are going to outlast our physical families. Physical families don’t last. They grow up, they move away, they pass away. But the spiritual family of God will live on and on for eternity.
You have been given an opportunity to provide food for these Haitian kids and thousands more like them, through a Trinity Hope feeding program. You have an opportunity to feed the family. What is your purpose? You can’t fulfill God’s purposes by yourself, it works better with a family. God wired you to need and work with other people so that HE can bless more lives.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you…Jay