But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord,
I say, “You are my God.”
My times are in Your hand;

Psalm 31:14-15

I will be attempting to break down Romans 8:28-30 for my Kindergarten through 5th graders this coming Sunday at Shiloh. Needless to say, I was pretty excited about the opportunity to teach this passage of Scripture to our kids. Excited and slightly scared to death… these are really big words with really big meanings… can such little minds grasp the truth in them?

I believe yes, they very well can…

My prayer is that God would grant me the ability to teach these little ones in a way that they have such a solid foundation of truth now, that when their bodies catch up to their minds they are in full action… My desire is to train the minds of spiritual warriors, so that when they are of an age to go therefore and make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20) they do.

I want them to realize they have a purpose and they need to own it. 

Romans 8:28-30 lays all that out in an absolutely beautifully striking way!

And I get to teach that!

There is nothing more humbling to me…

God, the Creator and Sustainer of the entire universe, lets me attempt to explain His message…

I shake my head in disbelief that He trusts me with His Words. This Alabama girl, this housewife, this homeschool mom, this non-theologically degreed female who just loves His Son more than she can adequately express… He lets me open my mouth and speak and teach His Word.

I mean… really?

But He does… It’s my purpose… and no matter where I go, no matter what I do, no matter how tired I may think I am, no matter how ignorant or unprepared I feel, no matter who or what hurts me in the process, regardless of who listens… I can’t help but do it… my love for Him controls me.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

Romans 8:28-30

As I opened up Romans 8:28-30 and began to dig into these big words that it shares I first went to their Greek definitions. I did this for each individual word and I grew in my excitement with each word study… and then I came to the word conformed

Conformed is summorphos in the Greek and it means having the same form as another, similar, conformed to…

Summorphos comes from two Greek words, one is sun, or with, which is a primary preposition denoting union… the other is morfe, and it means (oh, and this is where it gets good!)

1. the form by which a person or thing strikes the vision
2. external appearance

…which perhaps comes from the base word meros that means

1. a part
   1. a part due or assigned to one
   2. lot, destiny
2. one of the constituent parts of a whole
   1. in part, partly, in a measure, to some degree, as respects a part, severally, individually
   2. any particular, in regard to this, in this respect

 

Do you see what I mean!

…He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son,

Romans 8:29

Oh precious one, if you are indeed in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1) then God already has a vision, a purpose, for you… and He is in the process of bringing you to the point where you strike that vision!

If you are indeed in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:3-11) then God has already changed you from the inside… and now He is in the process of making your external appearance similar to His Son!

You are now a part of His body and within His body you have a lot… you have a destiny… you have a portion… you have an inheritance (Acts 26:18).

The question dear one… will you stand up and claim what is yours… or will you let the things of this world keep you too preoccupied. Will you miss what your Father has for you because living up to His requirements (Romans 8:4) is too much for you? Will you miss it because suffering for His sake (Romans 8:22-25) is too hard for you?

Let us never forget precious one, that it is even He who supplies us with the ability to claim our inheritance…

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13

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I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful,putting me into service…

1 Timothy 1:12

Don’t put it off another moment dear one… your inheritance is ready… you are meant to begin claiming it now. The pledge (2 Corinthians 1:22) has been placed within you… Don’t delay. Today is the day to become absolutely striking!

Your times are in His hand. You are alive today in this place in time for a purpose… discover it and live it.

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