Five days ago, I wrote about what is written concerning you. I emphasized the importance of knowing what is written concerning you because your ignorance can harm you. I made it clear that much had been written concerning you even before you were born. However, please note that it is not everything written concerning you that is important.
The most important book is the one you write with your daily living. Not the one you write with your own hands (which may be doctored) or the one written by people about you (which will also be biased) but the complete record taken from the day you were born till the day you died. This record is being kept by heaven.All your hidden thoughts, the secret things you did, the intention behind your actions, the sources of your motivation and all the spiritual components (which you may not be aware of) are all being written down and kept. I shudder to think that the record is not just handwritten but also has audiovisuals as well.
This final book is not likely to be as exact as the original plan of God for you. The final book will contain records of how men and other forces influenced the events and the direction of your life. This final book will bring together all the contents of the other books in such a way as to harmonize their interplay towards the final end of your life. This book will be closed at the same moment you close your eyes in death. That is the most important book to be written about you.
Let us look at a few examples:
Abraham: Retrospectively, we are aware that when God called Abram. all he had in mind was Israel. That was the seed of promise. At the end of his life, Abraham had seven children from three women. He achieved God’s purpose but also did some other things which I bet you he wished he had not done. The constant factor in his life was God. The variable was Abraham.
Joseph: God had a great plan for Joseph. His destiny was great but his brothers, Potiphar, Potiphar’s wife and a host of others had roles to play in his life. He kept making the right decisions through it all. Do you remember the way he handled his brothers? That was purely Joseph in action testing and proving if his brothers had changed. The constant factor was God. The variable factor was Joseph. He also ended well.
Samson: God raised up a great deliverer for Israel in the person of Samson. As long as he maintained his covenant with God, he prospered. God honored his prayers from beginning to the end but Samson obviously did not end up the way God intended. He did not live out what was written about him. We never got to know all that what was originally written concerning him because all we could read was about God’s purpose for his life and what was written about his life (what he wrote by his own actions). He did not have an enviable end.
Saul: Saul was the first king of Israel. If Saul had done well, we would not have heard anything about David. Saul missed out of God’s plan for his life due to disobedience and made Jonathan and his generation miss out on their destiny kings. The constant in Saul’s life was God and the variable was Saul.
David: We do not know in full detail what God planned for David. It obviously did not go exactly the way it was planned by God. We only have the privilege of reading what played out through his actions. He loved God, he walked with God but also missed it several times. Three of those times include; when he left the shores of Israel and stayed in Ziklag ( he lost everything and almost lost his life), when he committed adultery with Bathsheba (he almost lost his throne apart from Satan getting a foothold into his home thereby causing a lot of rebellion and the death of his sons) and when he decided to do a census of God’s own people (which was against God’s law).
The good thing about David and a lesson for us is that as long as we turn back to God and are submissive to him, he will work all things (inclusive of all our errors and incompetence) out for our good. The fact that he uses it all to make a good ending in our lives does not necessarily imply that he allowed all those sufferings in the first place. Sometimes we suffer the consequences of our actions and those lessons make us better people but it was we who caused the error in the first place, God just stepped in to clear the mess.
At the end of your life, all that would mater is the final book written concerning you. The best of that book would be the one that is as close as possible to the original one God wrote about you before you were born. The second option is the most important and that is, no matter the errors, the difficulties and the sufferings you experience in life, ensure you end well.
Ensure you end well the way God intended it.
“How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. “
Psalms of David 119:9-13
Shalom!
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