Reaching Your Goals - Part 1 of 4 (The Secure Foundation)

The Secure Foundation

You will find that all your hearts desires are fulfilled when you are exactly where God designed you to be. Your dream must be bigger than you. If you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). The closer you get to God, the more His desires become your desires. There won’t be a tug-of-war between wills; rather, what God wants for your life becomes what you want for your life.

When you see what God’s perfect plan for your life is, you will become excited, feel fulfilled and find contentment, as you walk down that path. Sometimes we are like the child who asks his mom for help tying his shoes. His mother kindly bends down and gently begins to show him how to do it, then the boy brushes his mom’s hands aside saying, “I know, I can do it from here” then goes on to tie his shoelaces into a huge knot.

How many knots have you tied into your life thinking you can “take it from here?” “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes.” (Proverbs 3:5-7) It all begins with seeking the Lord and trusting Him. This is dramatically different from what most of the world says. The common idea is to look within yourself, to decide what you think will make you happy and pursue that. The problem with that approach is the fact that you are not omniscient (all knowledgeable) or omnipotent (all powerful).

Many of the popular self-help guru’s teach us, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” If that were the case we’d have a lot more millionaires, astronauts, and American Idols. The truth is that God has made you unique, beginning in your mothers’ womb and continuing on today. He has blessed you with a unique blend of talents, spiritual gifts, experiences, and desires that only you have. He has both specific things for you to do, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10) and a directional plan for you, “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11).

If you want to become all that you are meant to be, it begins with seeking and trusting the Lord. This is the secure foundation. Without this foundation all your effort will be in vain, “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchmen keeps awake in vain.” (Psalm 127:1) The first step to reaching your dreams is to make sure that your dreams have a secure foundation. With a secure foundation, your efforts will have eternal significance and your will find personal fulfillment in what you do.