This is what I found waiting for me in my reading this morning. It was a long time coming and as always in perfect timing. This message might not be just for me, so I figured I'd share it. Though we might not know the plan sometimes, we need to just trust that whatever it is will turn out well.
"Do You Wonder about the Plan?
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).
I know you want to see what’s ahead. I know it is difficult to not know, to not know what is around the corner. I know you wonder if I have a plan.
My child, how could I not have a plan for this world? How could I not have a plan for you? Do you wonder now, what does it mean for Me to have a plan? Does it mean Me knowing all the details of a moment in the future? Does it mean Me having designs stretched out for what’s ahead, a purpose considered, an arrangement in place?
What if I told you the plan I have for you is not for you to worry about? What if I told you there is only a small part you can understand of all the things I know and the things I want you to know and the things you just don’t need to be concerned with?
Here is my plan: I have good for you. It is my desire that you know Me, that you love Me, that you follow Me, that you serve Me. It is my plan, it is my desire, that you want to be with Me, that you want to talk with Me, that you stay here, in this moment with Me, and concern yourself with knowing Me now, this moment, and not considering all the details about the future that I know and you don’t.
What do you want to know? What do you want to know that you think I am holding out on you?
Here is what you need to know: I love you, and I never forget you. Your life is my preoccupation. You are part of my plan for this world, which I love and which I desire to heal and bring to life and have know Me. I don’t want this world to miss out on what I’ve always had for it, as I hold out my hand . . . as I hold out my hand."
My takeaway: Sometimes it seems like God is silent...in those moments you wonder if He even exists or cares...but then there's times it's like He's been standing right next to you listening to your every thought and conversation and you know He's there and very real. Just because you can't see, hear, touch, smell or taste something at a moment doesn't mean it does not exist. How fickle and immature am I, are we? It's like the cry of a baby when mother leaves the room. We shouldn't stay in this state forever though...we must grow. Maybe our greatest sense of all is the one we neglect...our sixth sense. Maybe that's the one we should be paying more attention to. Wisdom is realizing that you know a lot less than you think you do and not being afraid of that fact. So here's to not knowing the plan but trusting it's a good one.
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