He Maintains Your Lot
Are you worrying and wearing your self out trying to determine what your calling is? Trying to make your destiny come to pass? Thinking if you don’t find out what your destiny is and make it happen, then you might miss it? Psalm 16: 6 New King James Version says:
O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
The word “maintain” here means “keep fast, help. grasp, hold fast.” And the word “Lot” means “casting lots, portion, destiny”. God maintains or HOLDS FAST your destiny. You’re not missing your destiny. It’s in His hands. This is so comforting. In the past, I had heard teachings that I was supposed to go after my own destiny and so I wore myself out trying to determine what my calling was. While it’s true, I can’t just sit still (unless God guides me to) and expect everything to come to me, it’s also true that I don’t have to strive after my destiny. Let’s think about some Biblical examples.
Abraham was living his life and God came after him, told him to move to a new country, chose him, and Abraham obeyed God and moved his whole family to Canaan. Moses was living a life of luxury in the palace of Pharaoh, privileged as the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter, when God redirected him. He ended up in the desert and then God appeared to him in the burning bush establishing his calling. Joseph was living his best life in his multi-colored robe that pronounced to his brothers that he was his father’s favorite, when God allowed him to be thrown in a ditch, then become Potipher’s servant, then get wrongly imprisoned, then get elevated to ruler of Egypt in order to save his family. Can you see a pattern here? Each of these people did not seek their own destiny. It was not their responsibility to figure out their own destiny. God directed their lives, leading them into their callings. It’s the same with us. We don’t have to stress ourselves out looking for what our destiny or calling is. We follow after God and He leads us into it. What a relief! This really takes the pressure off us and puts it where it should be-on God.
There isn’t anything left to chance when you are His. We read in Proverbs 16:33 New American Standard bible:
The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.
Decision means “verdict, determination.” In Acts 1:21-26 the disciples cast lots to see who the next apostle would be to replace Judas Iscariot. God is the one who decided which way the lot would go, which one would be the next apostle. In the same way, God is the one who decides the outcome of our lives, the destiny of our lives, the calling of our lives. Not sure about you, but at varying times in my Christian walk, when I have focused solely on figuring out my own destiny, it has made me focus on myself, taking my eyes off Jesus. But if I focus on the Lord, and just follow Him with each step, it is easier for me to keep my eyes on Him, then He leads me where I am to go and leads me into my destiny.
So I don’t have to feel this great pressure to find what I am supposed to do. Instead I can follow after God, as did Abraham, Moses, Joseph, and He will lead me into my destiny as I keep my eyes on Him. He will MAINTAIN MY LOT. He will keep my destiny, my calling and lead me into it. My responsibility is to keep my eyes on Him and follow closely after Him. And it’s the same for you. You can relax and
TRUST GOD WILL LEAD YOU INTO YOUR CALLING OR DESTINY AS YOU FOLLOW HIM,
In His Love,
Suzanne
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