I have to admit it. I love Pinterest! For those who don’t
know, it’s an online “community” where you can “pin” items, quotes, recipes,
etc. that you like and have found on the internet. I especially love sayings
and I enjoy finding new ideas for cooking and decorating. It’s also a great way
to follow someone who has ideas and recipes you like.
When I was young, a college man would “pin” his girlfriend
by giving her his fraternity pin. This signified they were going together. They weren’t just dating, they were an item.
My mother spent a lot of time pinning patterns to material, so that the item
she was planning to sew would be the right size and the pieces would fit
together. Without pinning, the pattern would move around and the pieces would
not match. Pin the tail on the donkey
could be hilarious as the blindfolded pinner tried to pin the donkey’s tail in
the right place. Often the game player
would be so off the mark that the donkey was totally tail-less.
Do you know this morning that before the foundation of the
world, God pinned you? He chose you as His own. He chose you to be one of His to
walk with Him throughout your life. Have
you let Him give you His mark – the mark of the cross of Christ? Do people know
that you belong solely to Him? The
pattern for your life God has planned for you is picture-perfect, but you must
let God place His pattern on your life so that you and He fit together
perfectly. If we stay close to God and His Word, even when we feel we are
blindfolded, we cannot see our way, our
lives will turn out right, everything in our life will be in its rightful
place.
Oh beloved, God knows you completely. He sees your hurts,
your disappointments, your misunderstandings with the world, but He says to you
this morning, “Come away with Me and let Me work your life out.” Nothing will ever separate you from His love
as He holds you tightly in His loving care. Plans may seem to wear away, people
may seem to walk away and life can get lonely, but God will give you everything
you need – from friends to spouses to jobs to ministry as you yield your life
to Him. While you may want to pin your own way, it is letting God do the work
that makes all things beautiful in His time.
He loves you, beloved, and He’s for you and that’s all that really
matters.
Ephesians 1:3-5 All praise to God, the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even
before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and
without fault in His eyes. God decided in
advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus
Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure.
1 Corinthians 3:23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ
belongs to God.
Ephesians 2:13 But now you have been united with Christ
Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to Him
through the blood of Christ
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