Fear Not

The Puzzle Pieces of The Purpose Tree

What ego never shows is that the greatest measure of success born from out of fear doesn't even come close to the least measure of success resulting from faith. Dissatisfaction will never generate the same type and level of output toward seeing a goal achieved as satisfaction will.

Also, fear would rather hold onto its excuses to use past and current negative events as excuses to "get revenge" against their calling by refusing to give it the light of day. Ego thinks that it can hurt God by keeping the person ego's controlling from living faith. But it's the person who's hurt the most. They are the one who misses out on life at its best. They trade in paradise for hell because hell exists, not realizing that living paradise is what expands the light, cutting away at and changing hell into more paradise.

Until those bound by fear are broken free from their chains of limitation, the world's made less.

Only when events unfold in our lives, in such a way that everything just seems to fall in place, when it all starts to make sense, resulting in that "Eureka" moment; at that moment when inspiration suddenly strikes, and we realize what we're supposed to do with our lives, only then does the light come on. And then we see, "OMG! This whole time, I've been asleep."

We get truly excited. Life becomes an adventure. We've found that we belong! We know how we fit, and that we're exactly who and where we're supposed to be.

We know what we're supposed to do. And in doing it, we become a living, functional part of the body. We contribute to the whole.

The whole body rejoices, having longed for its missing piece to be found.

Before, floating like a leaf on the wind, we felt like we were in prison. After, finding where we fit, where we were always meant to be, we come to know what it really means to be free.

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From today's verse, the word 'work' is translated from the Hebrew 'melaka.' This derives from an unused root, 'malak,' meaning to 'dispatch' as a deputy; as in, being sent as a messenger of God. The same word is used for 'angel.' And it simultaneously means one's 'employment' and 'labor' that results in property.

'Deputy' is defined as: A person appointed to act for or in place of another. One's representative. And 'dispatch' means: To send off with speed on official business.

Solomon was deputized by God through David to be God's messenger. Solomon would represent God through the ministry of his labor. Solomon, as God's chosen son (28:6), would build the temple in which God will reside on earth.

God has likewise chosen each one of us to accomplish a specific work during our time here on earth. It's why we were born.

Our calling is and will be our message to the world.

Mark Twain wrote that there are only two important days in a person's life: The day we're born and the day we learn why.

Our first duty is to learn our "Why." And when that happens, it's like the clouds opening on a long, overcast day, letting the sun shine its warming rays on our face.

As God adopted Solomon as His son, and said to David that He (God) would be Solomon's father, we, through faith, in Christ, have been likewise adopted. He's become our spiritual father. And he's given to each of us natural abilities and talents that we're to cultivate and invest into the world. We're each deputized as messengers, angels of God, our work our message through which God reveals Himself by that much more.

We're each pieces of a whole, like the inner workings of a finely crafted watch. When each of us are doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing, we'll be doing what we 'want' to be doing. We'll just be living our best life. It'll just feel like we fit, that we're a part of something bigger. It'll reveal an order to the universe that otherwise would have remained invisible to us. Our talents support each other.