THE GOD PATTERN

I recently started to create a blouse through a pattern I bought.

It seems easy. You just draw over the pattern and then place the drawing on the cloth pin it with needles and cut the cloth into the right form.

Then you follow the direction and sew together a blouse according to taste.
Voila! You have a nice outfit to wear with a wonderful feeling of accomplishment.

Sounds pretty neat.

But when reality catches up with vision it's stormy weather.

What seems like an easy dream often is not easy at all.

So as I'm sweating on the floor where I am fervently trying to create a blouse, I realize this truth.

But thank God for instructions, for as I try to figure them out I start to make progress.

And even though it's not at the pace I want it, it is progressing and my blouse is almost ready to wear.

Hurray!

Now why do I start this article with this particular example?

It's because God was explaining some things to me. Giving me instructions.

You see when God is creating your destiny He already has the pattern of how it will be established.

Yes He loves to think good thoughts of us and give us a hopeful future, just like the Bible says.

He does so even when people don't have good thoughts of us. Isn't He just marvelous.

Anyway, so God has a pattern of doing things to fulfill His destiny for our lives.

The pattern for Christ

God the Father had shown Christ our Savior the full pattern and Christ knew all about His destiny and the instructions to get there. But knowing this wasn't easy for Him at all.

For He sweat blood in the garden as He knew the road to salvation for all people wasn't going to be easy.

But He bowed to the will and ways of the Father and achieved the destiny God had for Him to save others and be the conqueror He was meant to be.

Our pattern

Often times God will not show us the whole pattern of our destiny but just show us part of it through dreams, visions prophecies.

Now why would He do that? Wouldn't it save a lot of doubts and questions if He just showed us everything at once?

I guess He would like to and there's nothing wrong with that, for He let Christ see the whole pattern.

But He knows that we are not like Christ, we are meant to be like Him but have to grow into His image as we change from glory to glory each day while obeying His will.

If Christ sweat blood, then what would happen to us when we got to see the whole pattern.

If Abraham and others like, Joseph and so on would have gotten the whole pattern at once they maybe would have run away from their destiny like Jonah.

Individual patterns.

No one person has the same DNA and God has given everyone another pattern also to create their destiny.

King Salomo had a smooth life but his father had a different kind of life.

A different pattern to achieve his destiny.

Esther had a smooth life in the palace with a saving destiny but Mary who had an even greater saving destiny, had to give birth to the King of kings, Savior of the world, in a stable while being rejected by people.

No one saw in her the carrier of salvation, but that was just the pattern God had for her.

Maybe to keep her humble? Maybe to shame the rich and wise because they were not the carrier of such a great promise? Who knows.

What I want to say is that everyone has their own custom fit destiny and custom fit way to achieve it.

Fire and water

Often times God will allow situations to seem hopeless just so He can get a greater glory as He teaches us that He is greater than all problems put together.

It's just like when Elijah the prophet poured water on the wood when he was in conflict with the Baal priests.

God had send Elijah to have this challenge contest with them. The God who would answer with fire would be the God the Israelites would have to serve.

When it was time for Elijah to build the altar he made the situation as difficult as it could be so they all would see that the impossible had happened and the only true God had performed a miracle.

God's fire devoured the water and everything and the people turned to God again.

He answered Elijah at once miraculously.

With Joseph it was a different story. God had shown him parts of His destiny through dreams but not the whole pattern to create it.

Joseph went from pit to pit as he must have wondered what God was doing for it took a long time for God to do the miraculous for him.

But then, it was time and God brought him out and blessed him as his enemies bowed down to him just like in the dreams.

So if you are a child of God and love Him and others like you love yourself, God has a pattern for you to achieve your destiny.

He will not show us everything but we can trust Him to get us to the fulfillment of our destiny in our own individual unique pattern made for us by Him.

Blessings,

Monique