Do you sometimes wonder, “Did God make a mistake by putting me here in this generation?” I think everyone at times wishes he or she could have been here when Yeshua (Jesus) walked on the earth with His disciples, performed miracles, and taught as He did. Observing that and being with Him as He functioned would have been a great privilege. But that is not what God wanted for you or He would have put you in the earth at that time.
God did not make a mistake. He put us here at the right time, and He is looking for us to be His vessels that He can work through in our generation. We must have a trust in God and a trust in His plan and purposes for us individually. He is working with us and creating us. His salvation is something He provided for you specifically. You must come to grips with that personal focus of God in your life. That is essential if you are to mature and move into the purpose that God has for you here.
God is focused on this idea of timing, and He does not make mistakes. It would not have worked for Moses to be a child when Israel was ready to be delivered out of Egypt. He needed to be a grown man and prepared. And it is not a mistake where God has placed you in this generation; even your age is not a mistake. God is a good Father, and He does not send us unprepared into the things that He is commissioning and directing us to do. He has not only prepared a generation for us to walk in, but He has also prepared us for that generation.
Your life has not just been a series of mishaps or circumstances. Like Yeshua, Moses, Mary, and Paul of the Bible, you have been prepared. The Scriptures do not show the preparation of Mary to be the mother of the Savior. But when the angel met her, God had already worked in her heart to say, “I’m Your servant. Let it be done to me according to your word” (see Luke 1:38). That was no small thing. We know Mary suffered a lot of persecution and maligning because in the community’s eyes Yeshua was considered a bastard child. Mary could have been stoned if it had not been for Joseph’s dream and intervention (Matthew 2:13). Later Mary was with Yeshua at the cross, with the disciples in the Upper Room, and in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost. She was one of the stable pillars of the early Church. Mary was a woman of faith and knew how to allow the Word of God to have free course in her life. God had prepared her.
However, right now in our time may be the greatest generation that has ever walked the face of the earth as far as serving God is concerned. God is preparing us to be those He can send forth to do His will, prophesy His Word, and move in the anointings of the Holy Spirit. He has placed you here because it is His will and His heart to use you and to use the Body of Christ as those who will do His will. Christ taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).[1] And we are those who will bring about that Kingdom on earth in this generation.
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[1] All Scripture references are from the New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995).