Daily Wisdom 11-21-2002 Where You Were Created To Be

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Where You Were Created To Be

I was speaking at a Bible conference, set right near the shore of a beautiful lake. And I was responsible for speaking about eighteen times in six days - so I was a pretty busy boy. But I did something that would make my wife Karen proud.... I took time to smell the flowers - well, at least to admire the flowers. Now, I'm partially colorblind, but even I was struck by these rich purple flowers blooming all over this sprawling vine in the garden outside my window. The flowers seemed to be everywhere in this garden. I asked someone from the conference what I was looking at, and he told me it's a vinca vine. He told me they had transplanted that vine from a pot to the soil of this garden. And I was told a vinca vine doesn't produce any flowers when it's in a pot - only when you plant it in the ground.

In the words of the man who had transplanted that vine, "It thrives only when it's where it was created to be." So do we.

And sadly, so many of us spend our whole life looking for - but missing - where we were created to be. And it is only the One who created you who can ultimately tell you where you were created to be. And He has - in our word for today from the Word of God. In six little words, our Creator spells out for us the reason for our existence, the answer to life's ultimate question - "Why am I here?" In Colossians 1:16, speaking of Jesus, God says, "All things were" - and here's the six words - "created by Him and for Him."

So you were created by Jesus ... you were created for Jesus - and you're going to have hole in your heart until you have Jesus. It could be you've been trying to fill that hole in your heart for a long time. But no relationship you've ever had has done it, no accomplishment, no experience, no religion. They can't. The hole in your heart is so big that it can only be filled by the person who created you.

And the reason we can't find the meaning we've been looking for,the peace, the lasting love - the reason is that we're away from the One we were made for. We're away from Him, not by His choice, but by ours. We were created for Him, but we've lived for ourselves. That's what "sin" is all about. Notice, the middle letter of sin is "I." And nothing is really working, nothing is really fulfilling because your sin - your running of your own life - has cut you off from the love you were created for.

That's why Jesus came. In Colossians 2:13 and 14, the Bible says, "God forgave us all our sins, having canceled ... what was against us; He took it away, nailing it to the cross." When you come in your heart to the cross where Jesus died for every wrong thing you've ever done - when you give yourself to the One who gave Himself for you - the sin-wall comes down and you begin for the first time in your life to be "where you were created to be." If you've never yet experienced your own personal relationship with Jesus, tell Him, "Jesus, I'm Yours." And I hope you'll let me send you my booklet, "Yours For Life," that's all about beginning with Jesus. Just let me know you want it.

Your life really begins when you finally are where you were created to be - in the relationship you were made for, with the Person you were made by. And that relationship can begin for you today. You don't have to be outside His love one more day.

Today's Daily Wisdom is written by Ron Hutchcraft, based on his popular radio broadcast,"A Word With You"."A WORD WITH YOU" daily devotionals are now available via e-mail. To subscribe send a blank email to:awordwithyou-subscribe@hutchcraft.com,or to request the "Yours for Life" booklet, fill out the form on this site:http://www.gospelcom.net/rhm/yours/yflorder.html. Ron Hutchcraft Ministries has been on-line with Gospelcom since February, 1996, providingpractical answers to real life issues. (c) 2000 Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc.PO Box 400, Harrison AR 72602