Day 4: God Has Written Your Part

The supreme purpose of Jesus all through His earthly life was to do the will of God. In this connection, Hebrews 10:7 says:

“Here I am – it is written about Me in the scroll – I have come to do Your will, O God” (NIV).

There was a part written for Jesus to play. It was written before He came. It was written in the scroll of God’s Word. He didn’t have to write His own part. He didn’t have to improvise. It was already written for Him, and He found it out through studying the Scriptures.

God’s will for Jesus culminated in the sacrifice of His own body. That’s why God gave Him a body, that He might sacrifice it. Note those three things briefly – first, Jesus’ supreme motivation to do God’s will. Second, there was a part for Him already written in the scroll of Scripture. And third, God’s will for Him culminated in the sacrifice of His own body.

In the following days, you will see that each of these three points needs to have its counterpart in our lives. Every one of those statements that were true about Jesus needs to be true in our lives.

Each one of us needs the same motivation to do God’s will.

Each one of us needs to discover what is written for us in the scroll, for our lives individually.

And in each case, the doing of God’s will in our lives will culminate in the sacrifice of our own bodies.

Throughout the rest of this devotional series, we will explore how this was worked out in the life of Jesus and also how it can be worked out in our lives.