God's Plan for Your Life   

Acts 7:58 introduces us to a young man named Saul, a man of the strictest sect of the Pharisees who was apparently raised in a very strict Jewish home in the city of Tarsus. Being a very legalistic Jew was what Saul’s life was all about. When a man named Jesus came along and began to threaten the Jewish way of life, Saul’s fellow Pharisees plotted successfully to kill Jesus. And when the followers of Jesus refused to go away even after the death of Christ, Saul then joined the effort to put an end to the troublesome Christian insurrection. His zeal quickly took him from a passive coat-watcher at the stoning of Stephen to an active and determined persecutor of Christians.
But God had a very different plan for Saul’s life. Saul (now known as Paul) would later write in Galatians 1:15-16, “God set me apart from birth (even from my mother’s womb), and called me by His grace, and was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles.” For much of his life, Paul had been determined to live his life by his own plan. But it was on that road to Damascus that Paul came to understand that God had a much different plan.
God also has a plan for your life! And it may not be anything at all like the one you’ve been making for your life. But God’s way really is the best way. And seeking to know and live by God’s will for your life is the wisest thing you can do. Choose to do what Paul did: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).

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