Life in the key of Hope

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“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:11‬ ‭AMP‬‬

It is not hard to believe that everyone in life goes through a lot. People, in general, experience many ups and downs in life but the one thing that we can have a confident hope in is the plans of our Lord. It's reassuring to know that He, the founder of the universe has and is thinking about me and my life. God the sovereign power is thinking and planning on my behalf.

The thoughts of God towards us are thought of our benefit. He that controls all set out at the moment of our conception to prosper us and to position us in the path of success. I know, being someone who struggles with control, that it can be hard to always be led by faith. Not knowing what tomorrow brings can stress someone out! But here's the peaceful part of it, if we ascribe ourselves to the plans and the ordered foot steps that have been laid before us, what is there to be stressed about?! If we do our part to line up with the plans for us, to rest in the blessed assurance that Christ has everything planned out, then the rest of life because a beautiful masterpiece depicted through the eyes of God.

The scripture tells us that we are to have hope in our final outcome. Did you know that God has planned, sacrificed, and willed that in the end we would be called back unto Him? He's set it up that after all the hardships, the failures and the successes, after all we go through if life, if we were to just be in Him as He desires to be in us the hope of our final outcome is eternal life in Christ.

God's word as a whole brings hope to the believer, but this passage of scripture specifically allows us to know the mind of God. In all His infinite wisdom and understanding He took out the time to think about us. If you take a moment and think back on some of the hardest times in your life, you cannot help but to be overjoyed in the fact that it wasn't for nothing. You did not go through so much and experience so much for nothing.

Romans 8:28 tells us that all things work together for them that love the Lord and that are called according to His purpose. The life span of the believer that of great triumph. WE may not always see how our current situation is blessing us, or how are current situation could possibly mean anything good. Know believer that God has seen our lives play out before Him and that He has orchestrated that in the beginning, during and end of life His children are favored and blessed for His name sake.

I want to pray and pronounce peace over everyone who is taking the time to read this posting. May you experience the peace of His expected end. May you believer find hope in the plans that our Heavenly Father has set out before us. I pray that these words, as King David said, as written on your heart. May these words comfort you, build you up and give you Holy confidence in the rest of your days. May you experience the everlasting joy that is the position you hold in the Master's mind.

Lesson Learned

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“We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:28‬ ‭AMP‬‬

I've heard it say many times that hindsight is 20/20. Not until this most recent season in life did I grasp my own understanding of this cliche or phrase. Often as we go through life we never take a second thought as to how our decisions in the present will affect us later on in life. What affect will these seemingly meaningless decisions have on the future me? It is this lapse in judgement that usually comes to bite us in the butt so to speak.

"Prior planning prevents poor performance" Thinking ahead or planning has so many benefits but in the rush of our formidable years, who's thinking about planning? Truthfully we'be been apart of a plan from the beginning of time. From the very start God had put plans to our creation, that we would be able to complete. I know that sounds as if our lives have no personal touches but the fact is, while the book on us has already been written, we in the present have the ability to change the chapters. Although the end result never changes, we via our decisions affect the journey. With that type of power comes great responsibility.

Romans 8:28 provides us a little more understanding of this. All things that have happened, that are happening and that will happen will work to our benefit. We go through a lot both positive and negative in life but because God's position on us never changes, His will that we prosper never changes either. God's plan to have mankind personify His intentions has never changed. We are the Windows through which the unbelievers see the benefits of a life of righteousness in Christ.

With this understanding, how then should we view and inevitably handle hardships in life? I've learned from much trial and error that we as His children ought to face adversity, hardships, set backs etc with a confident faith knowing that our Savior has been there this whole time ensuring the journey before us and that the promises of the Father never fail.

Psalm 139, tell us that no matter what the situation, location, circumstance or result that Christ would always be there. This fact is the source of confident hope in He that will never fail. Our relationship with Christ is the one thing that will never fail us.

Jeremiah 17:5 tell us in its essence that we put ourselves in trouble by trusting in something as frail as human beings. There are seasons in which those around us are tremendously helpful in wise counsel but truthfully there's but one source in which we will experience the greatest fulfillment of joy.

The lesson learned here is that God has to be the center of all things in our lives. The will for our lives will come to pass no matter how long we make the process but we cause our own hardships in life by not lining or aligning ourselves with the author of our lives. My grandpa use to say that "a hard head makes a soft behind". Brothers and sister take heed to these words. Know that God wishes to prosper you, that you be in good help even as your soul prospers. But, even God in His sovereignty does not go against our will. We as a generation need to pray, pray that God exposes to us the intention He has had for our lives and how can we better align ourselves in His will.