Be On Speaking Terms With Him

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world.

Galatians 6:14

The Bible reveals that God has a plan for every life, and that if we live in constant fellowship with Him, He will direct and lead us in the fulfillment of this plan.

Many of us have God’s plan second or third at best. However, if you have substituted the good for the best, do not despair. Wherever you are at this moment, yield your life unconditionally to God, and He can still make it a thing of beauty and an honor to His name.

The Bible says, “Be ye transformed . . . that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:2). God does not reveal His plan through fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and workers of hocus-pocus. His will is reserved for those who have trusted Christ for salvation. He shares His secrets only with those who are redeemed and transformed.

You cannot know the will of God for your life unless you first come to the cross and confess that you are a sinner and receive Christ as Lord and Savior. If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by the way of Calvary to get it. It is only through Christ that we can be on speaking terms with God and know God’s plan for our lives.

Our Father and our God, take my life, redeem it, and transform it into something beautiful to glorify and worship You. I bring my broken life to the foot of the cross and leave it there to be repaired and renewed by You. Bless me, Father, through Your Son and my Savior, Jesus, my Lord. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).