I’ve been blessed in the last many years of my life to have a fellowship of brothers that stands next to me. And I’m convinced that since they always have, they always will. It seems that no distance can truly separate us because we’re always somehow coming back to each other and sharpening one another. I think that it’s probably the biggest blessing that I pulled out of college – brotherhood. So to Michael Barrett, Michael Beardslee, Eric Johnson, Josh Luper, Dan DeGroot, David Evenden, Aaron Mussat, and the rest…
thank you.
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All of that to say that my friend Michael Barrett is a wicked sweet writer and constantly putting his mad skills out there for the world to read. He’s recently started a blog called “Christianity is Like…“. You can check it out by clicking here. But a few years back, he wrote this piece. It’s short, simple, and ridiculously profound. I recommend you read it, let me know what you think about it, and I’ll pass your comments on to him.
You are an intention of God’s making. God spoke, and the world became.
With that same intention God spoke you into existence. God intended you
into existence. You are an intention of His making. There’s a lot in
that statement that is difficult to understand.Intention is something lost on us in America. We ‘intend’ to do
laundry, or dishes, but never get around to it. God’s intention, the
intention with which you were created is so powerful that from nothing
it brought eternity. You were made with the same intention that brought
into being the earth, the stars, the flowers- every meticulous detail
of existence. And it will never change. You will always have begun at
God.No matter where you are now- if life is difficult, you’re suffocating
from things outside your control, if you feel that sin has a hold of
you and you can’t get free: take heart, you are an intention of His
making. Romans 11.36 says “for from him and through him and to him are
all things.”Remember that you are an intention of his making, and the person
sitting next to you is an intention of his making. People you hate,
people you love, your favorite lunch lady, your Facebook buddies, that
jerk who cuts in line everyday- all intentions of his making. Live out
the intention of your making this day and each day being sanctified,
holy and acceptable, loved. Greet each other as intentions of his
making, treating one another with the love and worth deserving of one
created by God.– – Michael Barrett
