I started a new devotional in 2025, “God is With You Every Day: 365-Day Devotional,” by Max Lucado. I kept up with it daily until the last week of February. I wasn’t feeling very well that week and I just did what I had to do and spent the rest of the time dozing in my recliner.
On March 1, I realized I had fallen behind and decided to catch up. Bob was out for breakfast with a friend. I had about a week’s worth of my devotions drafted. So, I opened Lucado’s devotional and began to read. I was almost caught up when I got hung up on this sentence. “You were made for more than wandering in the wilderness.”
I checked and the current world population is 8,208,709,800 as of Tuesday, March 4, 2025 (according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer). You and I are one of 8.2 billion people. As the world views me, I am just one of the masses, insignificant except to a few other “insignificants.”
God, however, does not see us the way the world does. He SEES us. He has given us a PURPOSE. He has PLANS for us.
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’” [Jeremiah 29:11 NLT]
“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.” [Ephesians 2:10 NLT]
We certainly are made for more than wandering in the wilderness.