Jeremiah 29:11<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 \u201c\u2026For I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Jeremiah 29:13<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n 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?\u00a0 Every detail including what hour, what minute and what second we will rise every day.\u00a0 Who knows how many strokes we will use to brush our teeth every day?\u00a0 Who knows every thought that we will think in the year.\u00a0 Who knows what other people will say and do for us or against us?\u00a0 Exactly how many miles will we travel in the year?\u00a0 Who will be kind to us and who will do or say things that hurt us?\u00a0 How will we react?\u00a0 How many hair follicles do we have and how many will we have every single day for the next year.\u00a0 Each second what is everything we will see or what will we hear?\u00a0 Then, who can tell us all these things about each one in our family?\u00a0 Do we know all these things about everybody we know and love?\u00a0 Do we know what our neighbors will do and how that will impact our lives?\u00a0 Who will die and who will live?\u00a0 Will our pets be okay tomorrow, next month, or even alive at the end of the year?\u00a0 Which one of us knows exactly all these things about us and about all these things in the world?\u00a0 No person on earth has this wisdom.\u00a0 Only God knows all these that have ever happened, all things that are happening and all things that will happen.\u00a0 We know this, but can take that fact for granted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We ought not to take the omniscience of God for granted.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We should calm our hearts with the knowledge that He who is able has good plans for us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s view the world with spiritual eyes that the Holy Spirit is everyday bringing into sharper focus.\u00a0 Focus that increasingly allows us to see everything through the eyes of God. He is not afraid.\u00a0 He is not concerned.\u00a0 He sees that there is no power of any being that can resist what He determines will happen.\u00a0 How are we to judge whether or not a good thing can come out of a bad.\u00a0 Do we understand whether something bad is, or is not, something that will bring good?\u00a0 We don\u2019t know the future.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know everything about what has happened.\u00a0 Job had no idea that what he went through would be a great encouragement to billions of people.\u00a0 Only God knew that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Do we truly know God, who and what He is, enough to trust Him in all matters? Those who truly know Him trust Him.\u00a0 The trust we have in God is manifested reveals how much we love and trust Him.\u00a0 If our faith in Him is weak then our knowledge of Him is weak.\u00a0 Those who know and love Him are not concerned about being \u201conly human\u201d because their eyes are not focused on self but on God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n God promised that all who seek Him will find Him.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet He will remain hidden to the proud who will not humble themselves and seek Him with a pure heart.\u00a0 When we ask questions, let Him answer in His almighty wisdom.\u00a0 We too often seek answers in what we think is our almighty wisdom.\u00a0 Then we will not know the peace of God if we are proud and value our thoughts over His thoughts.\u00a0 Seek answers from God and follow His answers in order to find peace.\u00a0 Trust God, not self.\u00a0 Then we will have peace that surpasses understanding.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 It should be if we humble ourselves before Him and if we love and know Him.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n God has a plan for us, not any plan, but a plan that God has stated is good and will prosper us.\u00a0 He has said that if we seek Him will all of our heart we will find Him.\u00a0 God does not lie.\u00a0 If God said it, then it is so.\u00a0 Family, let us seek God, let us know, love and trust Him.\u00a0 He is worthy of our trust.\u00a0 After all, the love of God is on full display through Jesus.\u00a0 For God so loved the world\u2026\u00a0 Let us trust God and so we will have peace.\u00a0 Not ease, but peace.\u00a0\u00a0 All of us who are hurting, even suffering, we know that God knows.\u00a0 God has a very good plan for each of us.\u00a0 He loves us.\u00a0 He will answer.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have peace.\u00a0 God is good and He loves us and for those who truly know that, there is peace.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/span><\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeremiah 29:11\u00a0\u2013 \u201c\u2026For I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 29:13\u00a0\u2013\u00a0You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 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