His Goal Is to Make Me His Own

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

August 29, 2025

His Goal Is to Make Me His Own

I will make you my wife forever,

    showing you righteousness and justice,

    unfailing love and compassion.

I will be faithful to you and make you mine,

    and you will finally know me as the Lord.

Hosea 2: 19-20 

I summarized the Bible as: God created humankind to dwell with Him for all eternity. Humankind rejected God. God has been and will continue to devote all his energy to winning back humankind.

With my hindsight, I can see all the steps, missteps, twists and turns in my life. And I can see the Hand of God giving me opportunity after opportunity to turn to Him and accept His offer of new life in Christ. I can remember when I did trust in His grace and accept Jesus as my Savior. I can also see all the times since then when I was,

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it

Prone to leave the God I love, 

And I can recall all the times I have said,

Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it

Seal it for Thy courts above

(Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing) 

My Takeaway: Along my journey, I have learned God’s goal for me has never been to make me happy. His goal is to make me His, and His alone. His goal is not to give me what I think I want. Rather, His goal is for me to worship Him with reverence and awe.

Sē’lah

My book on prayer,

First Think, Then Pray

is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

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