God’s Plan

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Do you believe God has your best in mind and a plan for your life, even when times are difficult and when you are experiencing turmoil and judgement?

For most of us it is easier to trust God when everything is going well, and when we are experiencing blessing and an easy road. It is more difficult to trust God’s plan when we are experiencing hardship or judgement.

God spoke to the Prophet Jeremiah in the middle of hardship and judgement, saying, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11, ESV).

When we are facing hardship and perceive we are facing judgement and the end, God promises he has a plan for our lives. God has our best in mind. God has a plan for our well being and gives us a future hope.

In the face of suffering and the judgement of God by the Babylonians, who destroyed Jerusalem and took the Israelites captive to Babylon, God spoke love and laid out a future plan of hope for Jeremiah and the Israelites.

Do we trust in God’s plan for our lives in the face of suffering and exile?

May we trust God’s good plan for our lives, even in the face of adversity, knowing that God has a plan for our welfare—to give us a future and a certain hope.

A Prayer for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany: “O Lord, our heavenly Father, keep your household the Church continually in your true religion, that we who trust in the hope of your heavenly grace may always be defended by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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