Is it possible for you to discover that God hasn't it is with you? Perhaps you feel you have no real future. Perhaps you can look back on that time everybody said, “Oh, what a future!” But that's all over now; you feel there is nothing to live for, you’ve made real mistakes, and there is no way that God could use you at all now.
Jacob had come to the place where he anticipated nothing but sorrow. He is now an old man. He had made many mistakes, almost every mistake possible. He felt there was nothing to live for, and he anticipated the worst.. The irony was that Jacob's best days are yet to come, because he had not yet to do to what God raised him up to do:in a to give the patriarchal blessing to those twelve sons.
Are you like that? You feel you are finished. You know the greatest feeling in the world is to feel needed, to feel useful, and the greatest honor in the world is to be used by God. I can think of nothing more wonderful than knowing that God is using me. Perhaps you have known better days when God did use you in a particular situation, and you would give anything in the world just now that it could happen again.
I can promise you on the authoritative of God's Word that if you come to the cross and get right with God, you're happiest days, lie ahead. I guarantee it.
One has to be willing to live in grateful to have been from now on. If God is going to use you again, you have to make the break. You have no chance of going back. No way! You are going forward. Jacobs greatest day were now ahead. He had something to live for. God hadn’t finished with him, and he hasn't finished with you.
Excerpted from All’s well That Ends Well (Authentic Media, 2005)
By R. T. Kendall
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