Ahead of the Game Plan

    Through times of suffering we hear the typical..."Everything is gonna be okay" bit. And part of us believe it but then in the back of our mind we tell ourselves that our lives just really stink. Most of the time when we confront God we buying into the fact that he has our back. Which he does have our 100% of the time but we don't jump in fully 100% of the time. If you really think about how horrible our life situations are and how God handles them, it is outstanding. He knows how bad they there are...even though he can overcome anything God does realize how horrible our situations are. In knowing that he tells us automatically tells us that we will encounter riches and wisdom.

    You would think that we should just take that as a relief statement but we don't. We just brush off God's wisdom as a little far-fetched and it is never going to happen. When we open up to God and give him the chance to actually evaluate our life situations while giving advice, he is all in. He already knows what is going to happen to us before we go to him on our knees. Plus he knows the ending to all of our troubles. So isn't that such an encouragement to know that God has the game plan in his hand? He can just look down on the whole outline and know what to do when and where. To me that's exciting because someone in this world has it down pat for me! What puts the icing on the cake is that he WANTS to do it all. He wants to hold the game plan and be the coach and give us motivation.

    The most famous verse for letting it all into the hands of God is Jeremiah 29:11." 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." This same verse has become my own personal life statement. I carry it around on a ring that I can always refer to as the big man upstairs has my back. This is a great verse for personal enlightenment and hope for the future when life just kicks us while were down. But surprisingly this verse is often taken out of context. If you go back a verse  you will see that God promises hopes for us over a period of time...
    "This is what the Lord says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place." The passage that 29:11 came out off is all about the exile of Babylon. People in exile were told that the Lord had hopes and plans for them. But let's look at verse ten first. God in fact did promise the suffering people a bunch of awesome things but after 70 YEARS!!! Can you imagine waiting through our own suffering for 70 years!? Some times we do need to wait for a long time through our suffering for God to give us things over time.

    The main point here is to show ourselves that God has it. We would never know that He has the game plan in hand if we didn't follow his teachings. He knows what is going to happen and how it is going to resolve it's self and what he needs to do in order for that to happen. But we need to realize that God takes these things out over time for the optimal support.



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Word of the Day: "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."
                      ~Philippians 1:6