God said, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,' says the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
Lisa Hughes, in God's Priorities for Today's Woman, writes, "God's plan has always been for every one of His children to look like they belong to Him."
When we think about God's desire for us, I think we tend to overcomplicate things. We delve so deeply into "What does God want for me?" that we make every decision an unnecessary internal battle between what God wants and what God doesn't want. And in trying to figure out what career God wants us to pursue and what school to attend, we forget the basic and most important thing. More than anything else, God wants us to desire Him and in doing so to look like we belong to Him. That is what God desires in our lives more than career goals, school choices, etc. And when we shrink God down to only matter in these kinds of life decisions, we undervalue the cross. Jesus did not die just so that He can tell you to pursue a master's degree or travel to New York this summer over San Francisco.
We miss the mark when we forget that as followers of Christ we are to be set apart from this world. And when we fix our eyes on this goal and desire to be what God wants us to be, all these other life decisions become infinitely easier to make.
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