I know, it's been awhile. Shocker, I'm a horrible journaler/blogger.
Right now, I'm still trying to figure out what verse to attach to my One Word this year. During church this morning, my train of thought took me down the rabbit hole and swirled around, and I found myself looking up various synonyms for Intentional on my Bible app. Found lots of stuff. SO much stuff!
Being the scholarly, literal person that I am, I look up intentional to ensure that I'm not like Vizzini and that there isn't some alternate, hidden meaning of which I am unaware.
Guess what. There's not. It's pretty straight forward. Intentional means to be deliberate, or do something on purpose. Not surprising, I use this all of the time with my kids. "Did you hit your sister intentionally or accidentally?" or "How is biting not intentional?"
Synonyms include: purposed, planned, prearranged, calculated, aforethought, and calculated. Now, the latter three have rather menacing connotations to me ("with malice aforethought" etc). But the first three are pretty much spot on what I was expecting.
God is PURPOSED. God is PLANNED. God has PREARRANGED. God is INTENTIONAL.
Intend/intended/intends/intent/intention/intentional/intentionally/intently show up a sporadically in the Bible--46 times total for all 8 variations--but purpose on the other hand shows up 42 times in just that form. When I looked up that word, I found a wealth of verses.
Exodus 9:16 -- But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Psalm 57:2 -- I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
Psalm 138:8 -- The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your handsProverbs 19:21 -- Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.Isaiah 55:11 -- so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Romans 8:28 -- And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 3:11 -- This was according to his eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord
2 Timothy 1:9 -- who saved us and called us to[a] a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began
Hebrews 6:17 -- So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath
So much to dwell on with these verses. And so many others to look into still.
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