Finding God’s Plan

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

Daily Thoughts

January 3, 2025 

Finding God’s Plan

Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

    and all people will see it together.

    The Lord has spoken!

Isiah 40:5

Read Isaiah 40:3-5

Chariots of Fire, is a 1981 film about two determined young runners training for the 1924 Paris Olympics. One was Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China. He believed his running was part of his worship of God's glory. In one compelling scene, Eric’s sister confronts him with her concern that his preparing for the Olympics was distracting him from his call to be a missionary. Eric responded to his sister, “But God made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure.”

Another young lad, while tending his father’s sheep was called to fulfill God’s plan for his life. Later, this lad we know as King David, would write, “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” (Psalm 139:16)

While I was a senior in High School, I sensed God’s call on my life. I set out to follow that call, but there were many obstacles and twists and turns before I found my way to the pulpit in my early 30’s. Since then, there have been many more obstacles and twists and turns, but there is no turning back!

God has a plan for your life because that is the kind of God our God is. Have you found His plan for your life?

My Takeaway: May we fail not God, nor his plan for our life.

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

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

 

Making a Way for Jesus

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

Daily Thoughts 

January 2, 2025

Making a Way for Jesus

“Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,

    and he will prepare your way.”

Mark 1:2

Read Mark 1:1-11

Let’s make it our purpose in 2025 to make a way for Jesus. Jesus needed someone to prepare his way so that the prophecy of Isaiah would be fulfilled. John the Baptist prepared the way for our Lord. Jesus still needs someone to prepare the way for him. We can do it! How?

We can through the purity of our life and the gentleness of our spirit. We can prepare the way for Jesus into our hearts and into our homes. And by our witness, we can prepare the way for Jesus into the hearts and homes of our neighbors.

Yes, we may prepare the way for Jesus; this is our privilege. Yes, we can prepare the way for Jesus; it is in our power through the indwelling Holy Spirit. Yes, we must prepare the way for Jesus; the love of Jesus within our hearts compels us.

My Takeaway: Yes, we will prepare the way for Jesus; this shall be our set purpose for 2025.

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

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

I Trust Him with All My Heart

Meditations for the Season of Christmas 

January 1, 2025

I Trust Him with All My Heart

“The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart.”

Psalm 28:7

Jesus taught his disciples “with God everything is possible” (Matthew 19:26).  Sometimes our faith is tested because we do not see answers to our prayers. Can we still believe, even though we do not see? The writer of the letter to the Hebrews makes clear that faith is the unwavering determination to trust God, to believe God, even when we do not see the results we want.

“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see” (Hebrews 11:1).

Because God is the Lord of the impossible, bringing life out of death, bringing success out of apparent failure, we can look at seemingly impossible circumstances and choose the way of the psalmist:

“The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart.”

In the first portion of this psalm, David seems overwhelmed with the corruption of society. He steadfastly believed in the judgment of God and did not want to be caught up in God’s judgment of the wicked. As David prayed to the Lord, his rock, he asked for mercy. Then, amid his lament, his prayer for mercy turned into a prayer of praise,

“Praise the Lord! For he has heard my cry for mercy.”

What caused his change?

I believe the Apostle Paul helps us understand this change. In Romans 8: 15-16 Paul writes,

“So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.”

When we come to God in faith, God participates in our prayers. God’s Spirit bears witness to our spirit, and God’s Spirit thus helps us stand firm in our faith, even when our circumstances have not changed.

My Takeaway: Consider this wonderful promise as 2024 has ended and we have entered the New Year, 2025:  With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can trust God with our lives. Thank God for the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise. He did not leave us alone.

Hallelujah!

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

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.