The Plan

What is the plan? What are you gonna do next? Are you going to do this or that? Decisions. Decisions. Our lives are full of them. We make conscious and unconscious decisions too many times to count in just one day, but think about each of those decisions that you make. Think about how much anxiety goes into certain decisions and how easy others are to make. Wouldn't you like for those anxiety filled decisions to be not necessarily easier, but for you to make them with confidence? I am here to tell you that you can have that freedom. We were granted with that freedom. We are free to be used fully by God in all circumstances.

I say this in the most confidence because I personally struggle with this on a daily basis. Control. I want to have control. I want to know exactly what is going to happen, and I try to take God's place in my life. I always try to reject that freedom and think that my life would be better if I was in control of it. That is pride speaking. It is thoroughly exhausting to try and live a fully controlled life with out submission. I mean honestly think about it. You really wouldn't want to know everything that is going to happen, and if the decisions we make are the ones that would lead to an easier path. You want to know why? Because that would take the life out of living. You wouldn't be living if you weren't learning, but that is a whole different topic.

Want to know the promises that the Lord has given us about this? Well of course! God's word speaks so much truth into our lives and can be applied to almost every situation. I mean honestly, I don't understand how people can just not turn to the Lord's word for that peace that they are looking for. In this situation, I think that a couple of verses apply. Romans 8:28 and Jeremiah 29:11 are ones that are most well known.

"And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." - Romans 8:28

"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 29:11

Those two verses are the most well known of verses that deal with the purpose and plan of our lives, but isn't there a sense of freedom you feel when you read those verses? I do. I have that sense of freedom that even if I mess up or even if I don't do exactly what the Lord wants me to do at that point that He is going to use it to glorify Him and to make me into who he wants me to be. That is the same for you all reading this as well. If you are contemplating a big decision coming up or worried about what tomorrow brings. I just want to encourage you and inform you that you are free. As it says in Galatians 5:1, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." 

You are free. You are free to struggle, free to live, free to make decisions, free from sin, and free to rely fully on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to work through ALL situations to continue on his plan for us. You are being worked through even if you don't think you are. God doesn't make mistakes, and he doesn't just give up on you. He has a plan and is going to use everything you have given him to make that plan possible, so I ask you this. Are you living in that freedom? 

Papa. I come to you this afternoon with a heart full of your love and with the freedom you promised us to be fully displayed in the way that I live, and in the way that I present myself. I just ask tonight Lord that you use this knowledge of your purpose and your plan to bring peace to all who read this, and that they fully grasp that no matter where we go or what we do that you are using everything to advance us farther and farther into your kingdom. If something happens that pushes us away from you Lord then use it to shine your forever bright light into our dark hearts, and if something happens that pulls us closer to you then use it make us grow in a close-knit relationship with you. I ask all of these things in the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.