plans

Opening Prayer: O Lord, help me to be about your plans, not my own.  For your plans are to prosper me and not to harm me.  Your plans are the ones that give me a hope and a future.

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11-14

Journal: Who is making your plans these days?  What are they?  What would it look like to submit to God’s plans for you?  Do you really believe they are to prosper you and not to harm you? 

Reflection: If you want to walk with God, you had best check your plans at the door.  Life with him is as beautiful as it is demanding.  It is an amazing dance, an awesome adventure, and a challenging journey.  It is a journey in which we are not in control, he is.  We do not charge ahead with our agenda and invite him to come along.  We follow his lead, he doesn’t follow ours.   

Our job is to stay attentive to his voice, in tune with his will, and aligned with his purposes.  Life with him is about his plans, not our own.  Fortunately, his plans are to prosper us, not to harm us.  His plans give us a hope and a future.  His plans, although they might demand a lot of us, are always for our good, our benefit, and our growth.  We just have to trust in him.

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Closing Prayer: Help me, O Lord, to let go of my plans, so that I might embrace yours.