Your Architect
Basilea Schlink teaches that God is the loving architect of our lives, whose perfect plan brings meaning and peace when we trust and surrender to Him.
In "Your Architect," Basilea Schlink encourages listeners to recognize God as the master planner of their lives. She emphasizes that life's apparent confusion and meaninglessness stem from losing touch with God's loving guidance. Through surrender and trust in God's perfect plan, believers can find peace and purpose. This devotional message invites listeners to rest in the wisdom and love of their Heavenly Father.
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 Basilea Schlink, 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 peace, O Father. Your hands are holding me.
All is by you directed. You lead me tenderly. I rest in you, safe, hidden.
O Father, my most 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. O will of God, sublime and great, I take this from your hand, my fate, Tis all by love designed. You did this life for me ordain.
In it the highest did attain. The masterpiece of loving. If you have access to the web, please contact this radio station for our postal address.
God bless you.
Sermon Outline
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- Life can seem meaningless without God's plan
- Loss of contact with God causes confusion
- Analogy of life as a construction site without the architect's plan
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- God is the loving architect and Father
- Jesus' sacrifice enables us to be God's children
- God's counsel and wisdom guide our lives
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- Call to abandon oneself to God's plan
- Desire only what God prescribes
- Entrust yourself to God's love and guidance
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- Looking back reveals God's perfect plan
- Resting in God's peace and protection
- Trusting God's will leads to the best life path
Key Quotes
“You have lost contact with the one who is holding the plan for your life in his hands.” — Basilea Schlink
“Your life is a house. The architect is God, your creator.” — Basilea Schlink
“Whoever commits his will to God, whoever trusts him and his love and seeming senselessness, has made the best decision.” — Basilea Schlink
Application Points
- Trust God’s plan even when life seems confusing or meaningless.
- Surrender your desires and will to God’s loving guidance.
- Rest in the peace that comes from knowing God is directing your life.