Who Assigned Your Seat
Where do you find yourself sitting in life? 1 Cor. 7:23-24
Who placed you there? Psa. 75:7
Have you accepted it?
Have you taken the time to study the guidelines that go along with your seat?
Will you bring honor to that seat?
Will you bring glory to God while He has you in that seat? 1 Cor. 6:19-20
Lots of questions but all necessary, let’s remember to start with this truth, “None of us are perfect, we simply work toward that perfection as we learn to rise above situations and learn to become what God calls us to be”.
Let’s take a moment before we begin to pray and ask the Lord to use this opportunity to change our hearts for His glory.
Each of the above questions pertains to every human being no matter what their age. God has an assigned seat for all of us and it is our seat until He is ready for us to move on. How can we make ourselves the most successful while we are in each seat, because we will move through numerous seats in our lifetime? For instance we start off in the seat of the infant, always demanding and having to be cared for, then to the child seat which still requires care but also requires constant guidance and protection, teachings of obedience and truth, and then we are off to the teen seat where we require less care but continued guidance and direction, lessons of discernment and maturity, application of lessons, opportunity to use those lessons while still in a position of life to be redirected so as to apply the lessons for future success. Then adulthood and it is off to apply all that we have learned to become all God has made us to be.
EEEEK!!!! Did you shriek at that, I did; now let’s get real? All of us would love that perfect world however most of us have never lived there, nor has anyone around us, (disclaimer, yes there are people in this world that have that kind of life but I have not, so since you speak best on what you have personally experienced, then today I will speak from the experiences God has shown me through the Bible that I need to readjust and alter in my life to fit His word, I hope they help you).
Romans 12: 1-2 speaks of presenting your body as a living sacrifice, since a sacrifice is no longer usable because it is dead to all around it then that is perhaps what God is saying to us, die to everything else, desires, expectations, pride, etc. what you think life should be like whether it is what you have been taught or what you have chosen to believe.
Let’s see if we can use some of these principles to help in the changes we need in our lives.
Romans 12:1-2 (KJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, We already talked about the sacrifice dead to self-alive to Christ (holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. [2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Cor. 9:27 (KJV) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Psalm 49:15 (KJV) But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalm 73:26 (KJV) My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalm 73:26 (KJV) My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
In Christ
Theressa Lindsey