Don’t you just wish that God would rent a billboard somewhere along the route you travel daily? He could put big, bright, unmistakable words on it, so you couldn’t miss it. The message would be, “This is what I want you to do.” The brightness of the sign would overpower all the distractions around it. Having read it, having actually received a sign from God, you’d know exactly what you had to do.

So many people worry about that. What do we have to do? Where’s my place? Where do I fit in?

But before any of that, there’s something that God wants us all to hear. He wants us to hear it above all the distractions. He wants us to hear it first among all the messages that we will receive on any given day. What God wants us to hear is that we do fit in, not because of what we will do, but because of what God has already done.

Pastor Rick Warren wrote in his blockbuster best-seller The Purpose Driven Life, that “God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything he creates. Every plant and every animal was planned by God, and every person was designed with a purpose in mind.” The Bible says, “Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind – had settled on us as the focus of his love.”

Where do you fit in? First and above all else, you fit perfectly in the family of God, in the purpose of God, and in the love of God. How do we know that – how can we be sure? God has given us a sign. It’s not neon. It’s not words on a board along the roadside. It’s his son, Jesus. He came to earth to give us that very message – that we do fit in. This is what God has done, and he’s done it for you.

Every week, people who are on their way to finding where they fit in, gather as the Willoughby Hills United Methodist Church. What happens there is encouragement, faith-sharing, life-sharing, and growing together as the family of God. We hope you will come, as together, we find out more about where we fit in.

Blessings,

Pastor Dana