Becoming useful in the hands of God

Destiny, your destiny... always and forever.

If you have ever listened to or read any of my speeches or publications, you will have noticed that the subject of destiny is really close to my heart. Why? For the simple reason that I have understood that, however many of us there are on Earth, each of us is born with a specific purpose and no two people have the same destiny, or life mission, to put it in simple terms.

Our goal is therefore clear: to do our best with God's help to fulfill this mission during our earthly journey.

This is exactly the theme of this Sunday, June 29, 2025, presented by Dr. Raoul Wafo, who spoke with us for over an hour about how to be useful in God's hands.

I will give you a brief summary, but I invite you, if you wish, to watch his more detailed presentation on the subject via the video embedded below this post.

The introduction to this message helped us understand that being useful in God's hands simply means being someone God can count on in a specific area of society.

In Ephesians 2:10, we read that we are God's workmanship, created for good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10 (LSG):

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago”.

There is therefore a specific and clear purpose for our existence, a path that we are supposed to follow during our lifetime.

In the rest of his message, Dr. Wafo focused on several pitfalls to avoid today, including:

1. Thinking that our salvation is only about meeting God and going to Heaven

Saved? If so, what is the answer to this question? What comes next?

2. The fact that we tend to think that we accept Christ in order to prosper materially

Of course, God wants us to be happy in all areas of our lives and to prosper materially, but here he was trying to make us understand that we cannot live a life of accumulating goods and riches for the simple pleasure of accumulating them. Our riches and possessions exist for the purpose of enabling us to fulfill this mission in life; they are therefore a means to an end and not an end in themselves.

In the conclusion of his presentation, we discovered a hierarchy of our areas of service. A person who calls himself a child of God is called to serve God first in his family. This means that each of us must play our role within the family in an appropriate manner, that is, we must not neglect our families on the pretext that we are busy with the Church or our social missions/responsibilities.

1 Timothy 5:8 helps us to understand this idea better.

" But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers’’.

Secondly, we are called to serve, that is, to invest ourselves and play a role within the Church, after and only after we have fulfilled our family missions.

Hebrews 10:25: “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near”.

Once these two areas are taken care of, the third and final area of investment concerns society.

This third area allows us to come full circle, as we return to the very first sentence of this article, if you have read it from beginning to end, namely that we have a role, a mission in this life.

This fairly precise and gradual hierarchy is important to us because doing things is good, but doing them the right way is even better.

Sometimes we have good intentions and think we are doing things right, but a few details can slip through the cracks.

That's all for this Sunday, June 29, at least as far as I can tell.

For more details, feel free to click on the link below, as the Doctor is particularly knowledgeable on this subject and, even with the best will in the world, I wouldn't be able to convey the full substance of this crucial—even vital—topic.

Until then, take care & see you soon!

Be brave, you have a beautiful and great destiny, and the obstacles along the way will not prevent you from achieving it.

SBE

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