Biblical Insight Today

Discovering God’s Purpose and Blueprint for Your Life Life isn’t a game of chance like Lotto 649. Many people drift through existence believing that events unfold randomly, without direction or meaning. If that’s how you’ve been thinking, it’s time to reconsider. The truth is far more beautiful and intentional: your life has a specific design. God created you with purpose, complete with blueprints and a divine manual. He formed you, He loves you deeply, and He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for your salvation. He also sent the Holy Spirit to guide you and speak truth into your heart. Throughout Scripture, we see the unmistakable hand of God guiding ordinary people into extraordinary assignments. These stories aren’t just ancient history—they reveal how God still calls men and women today. Called to Something Greater Consider Abram (later Abraham).  At 75 years old, God told him, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will ...

God made prophets, priest and kings. God made Abraham a Father of many nations. He made Moses a deliverer, Levi a priest, David a King, Solomon the wisest man in the world and Jeremiah a prophet. The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” God made Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Apostles. He made John a Seer who wrote everything he saw in the book of Revelation. He made Paul a “letter-writer” to the churches. He said, “It was [God] who gave some to be...evangelist, some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ is built up.” This verse has our names all over it. What Pastors do for Christ and the church is no accident or fluke. Paul wrote, “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to [be set apart].” (Eph. 1:4) The LORD does not call pastors to be shepherds of His flocks and...