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Original post @ https://dbethandrews.wordpress.com/2024/06/20/the-plan/

The Plan

POSTED ON JUNE 20, 2024 BY BETH ANDREWS

“Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare” (Psalm 40:5).

The speaker declared, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.” I, along with thousands of other women in the packed arena, nodded my head in agreement. God’s love was not in question and His wonderful plan for my life was also a certainty in my mind.  What was in doubt was why I kept pushing His plans away to go after my own. Did I really think I know better than God? The sad truth is, often I do – and I’ll bet – if you’re honest – you do too. We think that God doesn’t quite understand our situation, that He doesn’t know what we know.  Or, like Eve in the garden, that God is holding out on us.

I have followed my own plans several times. Sometimes I found a small measure of success or pleasure but inevitably it always ended disastrously. I took the wrong path or said the wrong thing, or followed the wrong person, or – well, I think you understand. You’ve done the same thing. It always ends with me, full of regret and a few bruises, coming before God and saying, “I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you. I made a mess. Will you help me please?” And He always does. Even in my stubborn determination to do my thing my way, God is gracious and kind.

Maybe I am just getting old and too tired for the drama and chaos of pushing my own stubborn will up a mountain I was never meant to climb. Or maybe I’m learning – every so slowly – the blessing and peace of submitting to God’s will over my own. Maybe I’m beginning to understand that God’s plans have a wider, longer, higher, deeper purpose than anything I can plan for myself. Maybe I’m realizing that He who planned the universe can certainly make and implement a good plan for my one little life.

The same is true for you, Beloved. God does love you and He has a wonderful plan for your life – “immeasurably more than all you ask or imagine” (Eph 3:20). The question is, whose plan will you follow today?

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P.S. (from bruce)  When there is no other place to turn…turn to God !!  If you’re not a “born again” Christian, is the Holy Spirit urging you to open this link ??  Here is the truth about how God’s grace is received to become a Christian in God’s eyes; through understanding and obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ…   https://godsmanforever.com

To my brothers and sisters in Christ, please feel free to share this message of the cross with those in need…

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