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.”
Jeremiah 29:13 – You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Who among us can with complete accuracy tell us exactly will happen over the next year with every detail of every day, every week and every month? Every detail including what hour, what minute and what second we will rise every day. Who knows how many strokes we will use to brush our teeth every day? Who knows every thought that we will think in the year. Who knows what other people will say and do for us or against us? Exactly how many miles will we travel in the year? Who will be kind to us and who will do or say things that hurt us? How will we react? How many hair follicles do we have and how many will we have every single day for the next year. Each second what is everything we will see or what will we hear? Then, who can tell us all these things about each one in our family? Do we know all these things about everybody we know and love? Do we know what our neighbors will do and how that will impact our lives? Who will die and who will live? Will our pets be okay tomorrow, next month, or even alive at the end of the year? Which one of us knows exactly all these things about us and about all these things in the world? No person on earth has this wisdom. Only God knows all these that have ever happened, all things that are happening and all things that will happen. We know this, but can take that fact for granted.
We ought not to take the omniscience of God for granted. That He who knows all things that will ever happen to us and around us has said that He has wonderful and good plans for all of us should bring peace. He who is always good and always loves us is He who is able to make even the impossible happen to fulfill His plans for us. He has said that He does not plan to harm us. His plans for us are so good they will inspire us to not lose faith but to look forward to the good and loving plan He has for us. We should calm our hearts with the knowledge that He who is able has good plans for us.
Let’s view the world with spiritual eyes that the Holy Spirit is everyday bringing into sharper focus. Focus that increasingly allows us to see everything through the eyes of God. He is not afraid. He is not concerned. He sees that there is no power of any being that can resist what He determines will happen. How are we to judge whether or not a good thing can come out of a bad. Do we understand whether something bad is, or is not, something that will bring good? We don’t know the future. We don’t know everything about what has happened. Job had no idea that what he went through would be a great encouragement to billions of people. Only God knew that.
Do we truly know God, who and what He is, enough to trust Him in all matters? Those who truly know Him trust Him. The trust we have in God is manifested reveals how much we love and trust Him. If our faith in Him is weak then our knowledge of Him is weak. Those who know and love Him are not concerned about being “only human” because their eyes are not focused on self but on God.
God promised that all who seek Him will find Him. Yet He will remain hidden to the proud who will not humble themselves and seek Him with a pure heart. When we ask questions, let Him answer in His almighty wisdom. We too often seek answers in what we think is our almighty wisdom. Then we will not know the peace of God if we are proud and value our thoughts over His thoughts. Seek answers from God and follow His answers in order to find peace. Trust God, not self. Then we will have peace that surpasses understanding. What if we are go through a tough trial and God has a plan to use our trial to lead other people to glorify His name, is that okay with us? It should be if we humble ourselves before Him and if we love and know Him. It will be if we trust Him more than ourselves, if what is important to us is not self but that God is glorified, then it should be.
God has a plan for us, not any plan, but a plan that God has stated is good and will prosper us. He has said that if we seek Him will all of our heart we will find Him. God does not lie. If God said it, then it is so. Family, let us seek God, let us know, love and trust Him. He is worthy of our trust. After all, the love of God is on full display through Jesus. For God so loved the world… Let us trust God and so we will have peace. Not ease, but peace. All of us who are hurting, even suffering, we know that God knows. God has a very good plan for each of us. He loves us. He will answer. Let’s have peace. God is good and He loves us and for those who truly know that, there is peace. Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.