Jeremiah
29:11 “For I know the plans I
have for you,” declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future.”
Do
I Trust God’s Good Plan for my life? Pastor Kyle told us last Sunday that how
we answer this question affects the entire way that we live and the quality of
that life. A Christian is a follower of God in the goodness of His plan
because, as John 3:16 tells us: “For God
so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” and
the playing out of God’s plan in our life is our sure hope With God’s steadfast
love for us, we never have to worry about our life or our death. Jehovah-Jireh
means “The Lord will provide”. God provides.
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Psalm
138:8 “The Lord will
work out his plans for my life—for your faithful love, O Lord, endures
forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.”
Life may not go as we plan. We do not know which way
life is going to turn and go along the way, but we know that we can trust God
and His plans. Life’s particularities may are not be realities. Some of us
trust in the plans of others. Some of us are good at seeing the good things
happening in others, but not in ourselves. “Not for self” is stinkin’ thinkin’.
How much better would our lives be if. by faith, we trust in the goodness of
God and His plans for our lives?
Philippians 4:6 “Be
anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
One of the most comforting truth of Scripture is
that it is not the strength of our faith that saves us and provides the quality
of life, through the fruit of the Spirit, by way of that faith. That strength
comes from the One in whom we place our faith. Christ does not demand perfect
faith of us before He redeems and blesses us, rather, He is seeking true faith.
Although as Christians we are called to grow in our faith and trust ever more
confidently in God’s Holy Word, the Lord receives even the smallest measure of
faith, saving and blessing all who believe no matter the measure of faith that
they possess. God meets all of us where we are at. The power of faith is not in
the faith itself but in the One whom faith trusts.
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