Prepared Ahead of Time

Jesus has been at work in your family and your city and nation and in your life since a time before you were born.

He has been at work in the future that you are to influence with your life since before you were born.

Nothing in your life is more important, and few things are more difficult, than discovering why you are where you are, and why you are here in these days, and what and where the resources are that will make you successful in the mission Jesus died to place in front of your feet. He knows better than you how nearly impossible it will be for you to get it right, and He has created the path so that it will be the path you follow as you love Him.

But God, who is abundant in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. By grace you are saved! He also raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast. For we are His creation—created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:4-10 HCSB ©®)