Plan of Redemption

Originally written 4/29/2009

I have often heard about God's plan of redemption for my life.  I have also heard that God has a plan for my life, but I have never truly put the two together.  It is not just that God has a plan for my life but that plan is a plan of redemption; nothing more, nothing less.  God loves me and has redeemed me; His plan for me is that redemption.  Now I admit that others have impacted my walk and I have impacted others, but that was not so much them or I partaking in the plan for another.  Rather it was an area in my plan that intersected with someone else's plan.

When my plan does intersect with another's, my focus isn't to be on the other's plan.  I shouldn't even worry or be concerned with their plan.  That doesn't mean they are not important to me for I am to love them as Jesus loves me (John 13:34, 15:12, Gal 5:13, 1 Thes 3:12, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 John 3:23, 2 John 1:5).  But that is not part of their plan, it is part of mine.  I can't impact another's plan (nor can they impact mine), rather it is God that is using me as an instrument in their plan.  It is God that intersects the plans; it is He that is at those intersections.  We are not to be concerned with what others do to or for us or for what we do/for others.  Wait!!  That doesn't make sense does it?  I am not saying that we are not responsible for how we act in those intersection points, quite the contrary.  We are very responsible for our actions but our true insurrections are not toward those people at hose intersections but toward God whom we disobeyed.  Our sin is not what we did toward others but in what we didn't do; obey the Lord.  Our focus is on obeying the Lord.  That also doesn't mean if we do something wrong to another we don't need to seek forgiveness because to not seek forgiveness would be to disobey.  Jesus tells us "Therefore if you bring your gift to the alter, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the alter, and go your way.  First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift."  (Mat 5:23-24)

This applies to those things that we do good in someone's life.  We can't boast of these things, for we did not do these things, what we did was to obey the Lord.

It isn't quite that simple; some things that we think are good in someone's life may actually be bad and visa-versa.  It isn't important that we do in regards to those whom we intersect with but that we obey the Lord.