By: Stephen Saucier

Don’t be casual about your life. It’s a gift from God. Sense of destiny pulsates through every great carrier of the Gospel.

David had it. He said “You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

Jeremiah had it. He said “Before the world was created You gave me a job to do.”

Paul had it. He said “You set me apart for the Gospel before I was born.”

Jesus had it. He said “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because You’ve called me to proclaim the Gospel.”

When Billy Graham was in Bible College he went into a field one night to pray with a few of his closest friends. At some point they lost track of Billy and began to look for him. They found him face down in the grass, pounding the ground with his fists, crying out “God, let me do something great for You. Let me do something great for You!”

One thing that drives me crazy, one thing that makes me rant, one thing that seriously causes me to twitch is when those who don’t know our great Jesus have a greater sense of destiny for their short life than we do. These people who know nothing of the eternal purposes of God, who don’t know Jesus, they have more passion, more zeal, more fire to live out their short lives than a thousand christians. That’s something to get fired up about.

Winston Churchill wrote to his mother from the front, “Today I rode into the enemy and dispatched two with my revolver. I turned my pony around, rode back in and dispatched two more. n’er a bullet touched my person, my tunic, my pony. I believe I was preserved for higher things.”

That gets me! Churchill had a sense of destiny that we often lack. We have been preserved for higher things… for the advance of the Gospel.

If you’re reading this you were probably born upside down in a brightly lit room. You came out and the first thing that happened to you was a solid slap on the bum from a nurse. WHACK! You started crying. At the sound of your cry the Doctor would have thought “Good. That’s one more successful delivery.” The nurse would have thought “I better get something to cleanup this mess.” A social worker may even have been thinking “Great! One more mouth to feed.” Your mother almost certainly thought “I’m glad that’s over!”

At the sound of your first cry, your Father in Heaven silenced the angels and said to them “Do you hear that cry? The plan has begun.”

This is not an accident, you being on planet earth. And it’s certainly not an accident that you’re in Marin, a part of Epic Faith, reading this blog right now. Live like you’re set apart for, and called to, the Gospel. You are.