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The Frequency |
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June 2008 Year 7 No.5
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Newsletter of the Amateur
Radio Christian Fellowship (N.Z.) |
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For all believers
in the Lord Jesus Christ, there is a destiny planned from the beginning of
time. This destiny is God’s very best for us in the long term, even though we
may strongly disagree while passing through the trials. But it is surely
important that, if we know our feet are walking a selfish path, we make it a
priority to seek out this destiny, within the parameters of the freedoms God
allows, and make our will to be in agreement with His.
The story is told
of how Queen Victoria, when still a young child, was purposely never told of
her true destiny. Her teachers had difficulty in motivating her, training her.
So one day it was decided she should be informed that she would one day be
Queen of England. Upon hearing this, Victoria quietly said, “Then I will be
good”. The realisation of her destiny, her high calling, gave her a sense of
responsibility that profoundly affected her conduct from then on.
For those outside
of God’s will or destiny, life is fraught with uncertainty. New York Real
Estate developer Larry Silverstein had an obsession to add the great Twin
Towers of the World Trade Centre to his holdings. Several weeks before those
two skyscrapers were destroyed, he had obtained a 99-year lease for that centre
worth $3.2 billion. This surely proves life’s uncertainty, and the need to
align our will with God’s. Rather than live our lives in selfish presumption,
we should say, as written in James 4:15, “If
the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that”. Herein is safety,
herein is contentment, joy and peace.
Father,
I know that all my life is portioned out for me;
And
the changes that are sure to come I do not fear to see;
But I
ask Thee for a present mind, intent on pleasing Thee.
In Dietrich
Bonhoeffer’s “Prayer of Acceptance”,
he wrote, “You will lay on me no more than I can bear. You make all things work
together for the good of your children.”