A new year is coming and a season I’ve never experienced. It’s one that I can only live by faith. I can’t make anything perfect, but I can experience perfect joy and perfect peace in the midst of difficulty and hardship. Circumstances aren’t meant to reign in my life. Jesus Christ is meant to reign in me (Romans 5:17).
God calls me to be an overcomer who is learning to control my life, not a passive onlooker. God didn’t invest His Son, the power of His Name, the truth of His Word, the revelation of His Spirit. His blood, His gifts, and His power in me so I could aimlessly wander through life, passively accepting everything that comes my way. God has redeemed me with a purpose. My purpose is to reign in Him no matter what season, good or bad, I find myself in.
Don’t let the world’s evils, problems, and circumstances crush God’s purpose in your life and instill their purpose. The righteous live by faith, not fate. Just look up and see the harvest that is waiting for those who labor with God (John 4:35). In God’s heart, each one of us has a place and a purpose to help and reach other people for Christ. We are to partner with Him and not live as if we have nothing required of us.
Passive acceptance is fatalistic. Fatalism offers no hope and reveals an incorrect understanding of God’s nature and man’s potential. A statement such as “God has everything under control” offers no chance for you to work with Him. Another statement like “There is a purpose in everything that happens” offers no hope to one who longs to believe God’s promises, but can’t because everything that happens must be God’s will. Those who make such statements have misinterpreted God and His intentions. They have ascribed everything in the world, good and evil, to Him.
“Therefore He says: ‘Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light’” (Ephesians 5:14).
Fatalism is a kind of death from which we must wake. God has created us in His image to represent Him, emulate Him, and spread His message of love and forgiveness. He has equipped us for His vision and victory.
Whatever a season brings, He has equipped us to reign in Him. Don’t say, “If only God would move.” Don’t be passive and simply accept your circumstances. You can do all things through Christ who gives you strength (Philippians 4:19). Fight the good fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12). Walk by faith, and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:17). It is only in Christ you live, move, and have your being (Acts 17:28). You are called to serve Him. But you will fail if you don’t partner with Him so He can manifest His life and purpose in you.
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20).
Do I truly believe He is able to work in me? If I believe, each day I will surrender my feelings, struggles, desires, and partner with Him, so He can manifest Himself in me. Life in Him isn’t a dead end. The blood of Christ has cleansed my conscience of dead works (Hebrews 9:14). I have great hope, faith, and purpose. God has chosen me to partner with Him. If I choose Him, He will do exceedingly more than I can ever think or ask. This is His guarantee.
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