What Is God's Plan For My Life?

The LORD will work out his plans for my life—for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me. [Psalm 138.8]

What is God's plan for my life?

I think first we must avoid getting caught in the trap of self-centeredness. By this I mean if we fail to comprehend God's love for the "world" because we are groomed to only see "what's in it for me," we have quite clearly focused on the lone tree and missed the magnificence of the forest.

It is worth 'centering' our conversation here to point out that had Jesus focused on Himself, and not the world, He would never have gone to the Cross. If Jesus set this standard, then any focus we place on 'self' is misplaced.

To be truly maturing in the Lord is to be progressively losing self-focus in the process of focusing on the world God loves and gave His Son through death to redeem.

Simply put, self-centeredness must be replaced with other-centeredness in order to understand God's plan for my  life.

Jesus gave us insight into this:

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. [John 15.13]

Our problem is that we are culturally, emotionally, and, even spiritually focused only on ourselves. Until I force myself to understand that I am only a single ingredient in the whole of the operation of God's Kingdom, I am useless to that whole. 

God has no plan for my life that is not tied directly to His Kingdom. My understanding of this fact is, in fact, the working out of God's plans for my life.

Father, I want to be in the center of Your will - I resign myself from my plans so that I might yield entirely to Your plans - Your loving plans for the world to be saved.