Believe it or not being unsure about a particular part of God's plan does not necessarily mean you are in doubt about the perfectness of His plan. So with that in mind we can give ourselves some grace when it comes to trusting God's plan.
After all, Adonai tells us in His word that His ways are not our ways! “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Adonai. “As high as the sky is above the earth are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9 CJB). His thoughts and plans for us are so high above our own that they are perfect and we can trust Him. And, His plans for us were created even before we were, so they are pretty solid plans. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10 NKJV). They are set and recorded in the annals of eternity. Wow!
If we are still struggling we can go to God’s word and there we can find the comforting help we seek.
Are you familiar with the beautiful words from Jeremiah 29:11?, “For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11 CJB). What a beautiful promise from God!
He also tells us that He remembers the frailty of our humanness ((Psalm103: 14-16). He knows that our lives spent here on earth are short and we are like a vapor - here one minute and gone the next. He wants to abide in us and guide us through a life that has eternal importance even here on earth, but He knows we cannot do it without Him.
We weren't meant to do it without Him and when we try we are left frustrated and unfulfilled - He doesn't want that for us.
A life lived without Jesus and His plans really has very little earthly meaning and no real lasting purpose and it is so fleeting that most of us spend the first part of our lives making the mistakes we’re going to regret in the last season of our lives. That doesn’t seem like a meaningful life to me. I want to live the life God meant for me to live. What about you?
Yes, we’re always going to be unsure about some things God has planned out for us, but we can trust Him even when we are unsure and not always see that as doubting Him.
His word also tells us many other things that ensure us that His plan, His ways, and His hope for us is good, it's always good!
Read, meditate and take to heart the truth in the scriptures listed below and all the things God knows about you and all His word speaks over you and it will be easier to trust that He knows exactly what you need. After all, He is the One who designed and created you and no one knows you better than He does.
“For you fashioned my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders — I know this very well.”
(Psalm 139:13-14 CJB).
Because He is the One who created you, He knows everything about you. He knows you have hopes, dreams and plans. He is the the One who put them in your heart and He is the One who knows how to bring it all to reality in your life.
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