“I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.” Psalm 57.2
Another translation: “Yes, I invoke God, the Most High God, who will fulfill yhis purpose for me.”
This text is great. It reveals two main things. First, the psalmist says that God has plans for us. This sentence must be understood in two ways. First, and this is good news, it indicates that we are not on earth for nothing, but we are here to fulfill the plan that God has prepared for us. He then declares that He will carry out his purpose.
All this is reassuring. We live in a time in history when we need to know what we are supposed to be doing on this earth. We need a goal, objectives, a reason to live. In Ephesians 2:10, the Apostle Paul wrote,
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
The Lord has indeed prepared in advance – planned, projected – many missions for each of us. He created us for these works. This implies that in creating us, he was already thinking about what we were going to do and so he has given us, each on of us, with all the ingredients needed to fulfill these works. It’s like someone who creates a calculator. In creating it, he endows it with everything he wants this calculator to perform. If it’s a simple calculator, its creator will place the simple functions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and usually, he will add the square root and percent functions, not to mention the equal function, of course. If it develops a scientific calculator it will add more common functions: cosinus, tangent, sinus and all fraction calculations, equation, differentials, etc … Each calculator is designed to accomplish what it has been created for. We can say likewise, each of us is created with all the “functions” that correspond to the work that the Lord has previously prepared for us. The plans and purpose of God for us is certainly come to pass.
The second way to understand this text, is that the Lord also has plans for our lives – not only what He wants us to do, but also things that HE wants to fulfill in our lives. And again, the psalmist says that God will bring His purposes that He has prepared for us. The same statement is found in Philippians 1.6 where the Apostle Paul says, “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1: 6). What the Lord began to do in us, He will finish it.
How wonderful it is to know that He is able to perform His Word in our lives, His purposes in our lives, His will for our lives. The good news of this passage is that the plans and purposes of God will be fulfilled in our lives. This sentence should remain engraved in our hearts for the rest of our lives. Whatever happens, God’s plans will be fulfilled. Let the hindrances and the adverse circumstances come, the purposes of God will be realized.
The enemy of our souls can come and harass us, nothing will prevent the Lord to fulfill what He has begun in us.
Here’s how the sovereignty of God works in our favor. God is not against us. He is for us; and what He has begun in us He will fulfill it. No weapon can stop God’s plans for our lives. They all will come to pass.
He repeats this truth in Isaiah 14:24 and 27: “The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall stand: … For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?” And in Psalm 138:8 the psalmist says, “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me”
No power in the world is able to stop the plans and purposes of God. Thinking and believing otherwise means believing that our enemy is stronger than our Lord. Oh, but the devil is not as powerful as what some Christians think. Certainly it has some advantages, but they are worthless before the omnipotence of our Heavenly Father. God’s purposes will be realized. Period.
