“THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED!”

1 Corinthians 7:12-17                                         (ESV)
“12 To the rest I say (I, not the LORD) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO PEACE.
16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
17 ONLY LET EACH PERSON LEAD THE LIFE THAT “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” TO HIM, and to which GOD has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.”

Looking back on my life, I am able to SEE things that I am rather ashamed of, things that I am extremely embarrassed to have been a participant in.   But I can also SEE where ALMIGHTY GOD was guiding and directing me into THE LIFE THAT “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” TO me.  Probably the most glaring instance is meeting, and ultimately marrying, my wife.  I’m not sure what she did wrong to be ASSIGNED to me, but GOD will reveal all when we get to Heaven!

A person with the upbringing I had might be a little disheartened by the path “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” to me, a single parent household with extremely limited resources, but also might also be a bit jealous because of the love and nurturing that I was afforded?  Or the Brain Hemorrhage of 2007 might be something that people would want to avoid?  But the lessons learned from that have been most beneficial in THE LIFE THAT “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” TO me!

ALMIGHTY GOD can use whatever occurs in our lives to be instrumental in our development, AND FOR HIS GLORY!  “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” each of us to have a path unique to us, to be copied by no one.  Each of us will have to answer one day for the choices we have made on our sojourn through “this world”.  We think we lead a path of our own volition, but Proverbs 16:9 tells us “The heart of man plans his way, but THE LORD ESTABLISHES HIS STEPS.”

The path that “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” to you might involve a trial or two, but HE is still on HIS THRONE and cannot be removed!  Your trial may include an extended hospital stay, or an empty checking account, a sick child, or something unimaginable, bad or extremely good!  Just know that “THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED” this life to you and you are here to Glorify HIM, not to be made comfortable!!!