God's Plan for Man

UV 3679/10000 God’s Plan for Man “For I know the plans that I have for you, “declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29 v 11 One of the most amazing and reassuring promises recorded in the Word and anywhere in this world. The Lord declares and affirms that He has plans not to harm us or to punish us or destroy us but plans only for our well being, our good success, for our happiness. He has plans to give us an expected end, an expected end to our minutes, hours, days, months, years and our whole life. He has specific plans to fill our lives with overflowing hope, This is the reason, He spared His only begotten Son, Jesus to redeem us from the plans of the enemy of our souls. While the Lord has plans to prosper us, the enemy has plans to harm us, to afflict us, to have us punished along with him. Jesus came to give us abundant hope, abundant love, abundant power, abundant joy and defeat the plans of the latter. The Lord has plans to do for us better than at our beginnings. He has plans to enable us to enjoy His grace, mercy, blessings in this lifetime and eternity to come. Hence, we can be confident in our hope, we can be joyful in the present and secure about the future. We were not entitled to any of these promises or blessings but through the grace of God manifested in Jesus, we become co-heirs with Him in the kingdom of God. We need not be worried or anxious about what the day or days will bring forth like the rest of the world. We do not believe in omens and portents but in the Lord Amen. We are not afraid of the day’s troubles, of death or of eternal judgement thanks to this decree of the Lord. What the Lord has declared over our lives is infallible, unfailing, certain to happen. But only the Lord knows the plans He has for us. He does not reveal all of it at one go. We need to ask wisdom and guidance and submit to His will step by step as it is revealed. He has many surprises and sometimes even shocks in store for us. Not only do we not know His plans, we do not understand it fully when it is revealed or while it is happening or unfolding. We only need to submit wholeheartedly, willingly and with complete trust each day, each step of the way.