‘For I know the plans I
have for you’ (Jer 29:11)
You may have plans for
your life but God has a plan for you and it’s enough for you to know that his
plan is a better one that the one you are making for yourself.
God weaves
our messes and makes something perfect out of them as we keep on trusting in
him. God has a heavenly pattern and we need to see things from his perspective.
Jesus said, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven’, so we need to understand
that everything starts in Heaven. The Christian view is different from all
other faiths, they work from earth to get to Heaven. The Christian faith starts
from Heaven, coming down to earth. It’s not about us trying to get into Heaven
it’s about Heaven trying to get into us.
The word says that we are sitting in Heavenly places with him and he
wants to establish his Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. Jesus said ‘it is
finished’, the victory is already ours, the enemy had been defeated and his
Kingdom is within. So if you think you have taken the wrong path in life the
message to you is this, ‘Halt at the crossroads and look; ask yourselves which
path it was that stood you in good stead long ago, follow that path, and you will find rest for
your souls.
You may have plans for
your life but God has a plan for you and it’s enough for you to know that his
plan is a better one that the one you are making for yourself.
In Hebrew the word for plan is (hbvxm machashabah) which means an
intrinsically woven together plan like a piece of tapestry. Whenever you look
at the finished work of a piece of tapestry you do not see all the weaving that
goes on in the background. Paul speaks of this in Eph 2:10, where he says that
‘you are God’s work of art’, in other words his masterpiece.
You may be
thinking to yourself that your life is a mess. You may be thinking of all the
mistakes you have made, all the wrong decisions you have made, all the
weaknesses in your character.
When we
look at our life from our own perspective we see it like the back of the
tapestry all we see is a mess, but in the eyes of the \lord ‘all things are
working for our good’ (Rom 8:28) and In him we were also chosen, having been
predestined according to the plan of him who works
out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, (Eph 1:11).
The Lord
always looks at the finished picture. He saw in fearful Gideon a mighty man of
courage, he saw in shaky Peter a rock. Jeremiah saw himself as too young,
Abraham saw himself as too old, Isaiah saw himself as too sinful and David saw
himself as a worm.
God weaves our messes and makes something perfect out of them as we keep on trusting in him. God has a heavenly pattern and we need to see things from his perspective. Jesus said, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven’, so we need to understand that everything starts in Heaven. The Christian view is different from all other faiths, they work from earth to get to Heaven. The Christian faith starts from Heaven, coming down to earth. It’s not about us trying to get into Heaven it’s about Heaven trying to get into us. The word says that we are sitting in Heavenly places with him and he wants to establish his Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. Jesus said ‘it is finished’, the victory is already ours, the enemy had been defeated and his Kingdom is within. So if you think you have taken the wrong path in life the message to you is this, ‘Halt at the crossroads and look; ask yourselves which path it was that stood you in good stead long ago, follow that path, and you will find rest for your souls.
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