Your Architect
Basilea Schlink's sermon encourages listeners to recognize God as the architect of their lives and to trust in His plans for true meaning and purpose.
In this video sermon by Basilia Schlink, the speaker emphasizes the importance of finding meaning and purpose in life by reconnecting with God. She suggests that when we lose contact with God, everything in our lives can seem meaningless and confusing. However, by committing our will to God and trusting in His love, we can live according to His wise and good plan for our lives. The speaker encourages listeners to abandon themselves to God, desire only what He has prescribed, and trust in His love. She assures that by looking back, we will see how good and perfect God's plans and leadings have been.
Full Transcript
God lives and works today. However, perhaps you feel that this isn't true for you, because your life seems so meaningless. Today's program, Your Architect, by Basilia Schlenk, will give us a helpful tip about how one can find meaning and purpose in life.
Loving Father, Loving Father, Father of everlasting love, I sing and rejoice of your unending love, Your planning, leading, counselor. Loving Father, Loving Father, Father of everlasting love, Eternal love. Perhaps everything seems so meaningless to you.
Your life, all your activities, your relationships to others. I can tell you the reason. You have lost contact with the one who is holding the plan for your life in his hands.
That is why everything seems to you to be simply mass confusion, just like the diggings at a construction site. They do not give us the vaguest idea of what the new building will look like if we have not seen the plans of the architect. Your life is a house.
The architect is God, your creator. At the same time, he is your father, and he has delivered up his only begotten son to death for your sake so that he can accept you as a child if you believe on him. This father is saying to you, I am wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
He has worked out a good, solid plan for your life. Therefore, abandon yourself to him. Desire only what he has prescribed for you.
Desire no other way than the one he is leading you. Entrust yourself to him, to his love. Looking back, you will see how good and perfect his plans and leadings were.
I rest in you, safe hidden, O Father, mine most dear. In every care and sorrow I yet may find peace here. Whoever commits his will to God, whoever trusts him and his love and seeming senselessness has made the best decision, for then he is living according to the will of Him who alone is good and wise and who leads us along the best path according to the wisest plan of His love.
You did this life for me ordain, in it the highest need attain, a masterpiece of loving. This program by Basilea Schlink has come to you from the Little Land of Canaan. If you would like a free leaflet by the same author, please write to God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028-4099.
That's God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028-4099. God bless you.
Sermon Outline
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- Understanding God's role as the architect of our lives
- Recognizing feelings of meaninglessness
- The importance of reconnecting with God
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- God's plan for our lives
- The significance of trusting in God's wisdom
- How to abandon ourselves to God's will
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- The metaphor of life as a construction site
- The need for faith in God's plans
- Looking back at God's guidance
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- Finding peace in surrendering to God
- The benefits of living according to God's will
- Embracing God's love and counsel
Key Quotes
“You have lost contact with the one who is holding the plan for your life in his hands.” — Basilea Schlink
“Whoever commits his will to God... has made the best decision.” — Basilea Schlink
“I rest in you, safe hidden, O Father, mine most dear.” — Basilea Schlink
Application Points
- Re-establish your relationship with God to find clarity and direction in life.
- Trust in God's plans, even when they seem confusing or difficult.
- Embrace the peace that comes from surrendering your will to God's guidance.