GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU

GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU

We need never be anxious about our mission. We need never perplex ourselves in the least in trying to know what God wants us to do, what place He wants us to fill. Our own duty is to do well the work of the present hour. There are some people who waste entire years wondering what God would have them do and expecting to have their life work pointed out to them. But this is not the Divine way. If you want to know God's plan for you, do God's Will each day; that is God's plan for you today. If He has a wider sphere, a larger place for you, He'll bring you to it at the right time, and that will be God's plan for you and your mission.

    —J.R. miller, in green pastures

Sadhu Sant Singh was once travelling through the Himalayas when he saw a great forest fire. Almost everyone present was frantically trying to fight the fire, but he noticed a group of men standing and looking at a tree that was about to go up in flames. When he asked them what they were looking at, they pointed to a nest full of young birds. Above it, the mother bird was circling wildly in the air and calling out warnings to her young ones. There was nothing either she or the men could do to save the nest. Soon the flames started engulfing the branches, just as the nest was about to catch fire, the men were amazed to see the mother bird's reaction. Instead of flying away from the flames, she darted down and settled on the nest, covering her little ones with her wings. The next moment, she and her nestlings were burnt to ashes. None of them could believe their eyes.

Sadhu Sant Singh turned to those standing by and said: 'We have witnessed a truly marvellous thing. God created that bird with such love and devotion that she gave her life trying to protect her young. If her small heart was so full of love, how unfathomable must be the love of her Creator. That is the love that brought him down from heaven to become man. That is the love which made air, water, greeneries for our living. That is the love He has given in our parents heart for our protection and upbringing. That is the love always guide us unseen to our purpose. That is the love which whisper in our heart that God is!

God has a plan and purpose for each one of us. The purpose may not be something grand, though we could well be led to something much bigger than what we may have imagined.