Sunday, August 18, 2013

God Plans For Us To Do Well


“…For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11

Every now and then some big mouthed person who has experienced some colossal failure will proclaim that God hates him.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The truth is that God loves us all and He has plans for our well-being, if we will yield our lives to Him. This does not mean that we will never experience failure, what it means is in the long haul we will be blessed. 

Some of the world’s most successful people had failure after failure before they succeeded in life.  Zane Grey had a tough transition from being a dentist to being an author.  School teachers thought that both Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein were not too bright.  The inventor of the Hula Hoop was laughed at.  When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, people could not see any reason anyone would want one.  Madame C J Walker was doing laundry to get by when she started making beauty products in washtubs and selling them door to door and she became one of the first woman millionaires in the United States.   God’s plan is bigger than any plan we can devise and full of surprises.

When things don’t go quite as we plan, we need to keep in mind that God has a bigger plan.  And, God’s plan gives us hope.

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