Today we continue the series “Wonderfully Complex...”

 ...Psalm 139:13-14 (NLT) “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” Two destinies:

1. As you consider God’s destiny, you sometimes feel like a captive. Maybe you do not seem to be able to break free from the habits that hold you back or hold you down. Maybe a dream God conceived in your spirit years ago has not taken shape. You know who you want to be, what you want to do, and where you want to go, but you can’t seem to get there. I have no idea where you are stuck or how long you have been there but I do know that God wants to finish the work that He started in you. We should look at this as God releasing us to our dual destiny. He died to resurrect the person we were destined to be before sin distorted the image of God in us. We are wonderfully complex. Say Amen!

2. As you consider God’s destiny...you recognize He not only wanted to save you, but give you a new life.

Jesus does not just free us spiritually...He also sets us free emotionally, relationally, and intellectually. We are held captive by so many things and in so many ways. Batterson - Jesus doesn’t just set us free from who we were. He sets us free to become who we were meant to be.  Salvation is not the end goal. Salvation is a new beginning. 

3. As we consider God’s destiny we focus on what and where. God focuses on what we are becoming.

What and where are secondary issues as far as God is concerned...His primary concern is who you are becoming...being is better than doing. What happens in you is more important that what happens to you. Our destination or goal should be, we look, act, feel, talk, dream, and love like Jesus. Philippians 2:3-5 (NLT2)
^“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Batterson: The end goal is not a revelation of who you are. The end goal is a revelation of Who God is. You see...you have two destinies...Our first destiny is just like everyone else’s (it is universal) and that is to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. My other destiny is unique to anyone else’s destiny...to be unlike anyone else. Those two destinies may seem to be at odds with each other, but they are anything but. To become like Christ is to become unlike anyone else. He sets us free from whom we’re not, so we can become who He destined us to be.