For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
This is
a verse I probably write about too often, but it’s the verse of the day on my
Bible platform, and it resonates today. “The Chosen One” is one of those themes,
especially in fantasy fiction, that one faces whether one wants to or not. In
fact, in the Harry Potter series, Harry is told that the reason that he was the
Chosen One was because his enemy chose him – by mistake, not because of anything
actually connected to Harry.
In Christianity,
of course, we have a Chosen One, who is Jesus Christ, our Lord. Unlike Harry,
Jesus fully deserves the status of Chosen One. But without going into the
quagmire of a discussion of predestination, today’s verse suggests that we are
also chosen ones. God prepared work for us to do, whether as individuals or
groups. We, individually and as a group, have at least one purpose. Quite
probably, we have lots of purposes.
A
challenge with our purposes is that we think it has to big and dramatic, even
to the point of saving the world (or at least lives.) But your purpose today
might be to take care of a loved one or listen to the woes of a friend. Your
purpose could be to buy or grow the food your family eats, or to cause the
delay in traffic that prevents someone from causing an accident that would have
killed someone.
We don’t know how what we
do plays into the bigger picture. Someday, we may learn about it. But for now, we
need to remember that our lives are sort of like the domino effect. What we do
sets off chain reactions that would be amazing if we could step out of
ourselves and see them. And what might be even more amazing about it is the
fact that what we do can build rather than topple. We can set the next person
we see on their feet instead of knocking them over. The domino effect in reverse, so to speak.
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