Different
Plans
As
a person I don’t react well to change. I’ve
had some thrust on me lately some big and some small. Change causes me to fear and at times be
angry. Fear is a little bit of an ironic
enemy to me because some of my favorite comic book characters are Green Lanterns
who are told “You have the ability to overcome great fear.” You see fear is a liar it tells you to worry
and not trust God. With as little sense
as our lives may be making you probably need these verses as much as I do. I kept thinking of the song Turn, Turn, Turn
by the Byrds when reading Ecclesiastes 3 because that’s what the song was based
on. Yes, there is a time and place for
every purpose under Heaven But it is verses 9-14 that help us realize God’s purpose
and sovereignty.
Ecclesiastes
3:9-14
“What
does the worker gain from his toil? I
have seen the burden God has laid on men.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;
yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men
to be happy and do good while they live.
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this
is the gift of God. I know that
everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing
taken from it. God does it so men will
revere Him.”
Then we
need these next verses to fix our gaze.
Psalm
31:14-16
“But
I trust in you, O Lord; I say ‘You are my God.’ My times are in your hands;
deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me. Let your face shine on your servant; save me
in your unfailing love.”
Philippians
1:6
“Being
confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Changes in
our lives won’t always make sense but God’s not done with us and we need to
trust Him because His ways are better.
Fear is aLiar by Zach Williams
Heaven inthe Real World by Steven Curtis Chapman
You Hold menow by Rebecca St James
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