Holding on to God's Plan

     I have always found it nice to know that God is in charge of everything and has a plan.  Lately, however, I have become so increasingly all the more thankful for that truth. 

 

     Let’s face it…life is sometimes a big old mess of disappointments and heartache.  Sometimes just waking up in the morning can seem next to impossible because reality is so uninviting.   

Sometimes you can almost convince yourself that there is no way anything could ever heal wound you’ve suffered.  Sometimes things hurt so much that you wonder how on earth you can manage to survive one more moment. 

 

     It is those times, when we are at our weakest and our lowest, that God and His promises become all the more precious.  They become the shred of hope you can cling to when you feel you do not have the strength to hope anymore.  No matter the circumstances, we can always have hope, have faith, and trust in God and His perfect plan. 

 

     Life will still hurt.  There will still be moments when we don’t understand.  There will still be moments when we cry.  There will still be moments when we feel lonely.  There will still be moments when our hearts are burdened with the weight of this world and all of its troubles.  But, in the midst of all of the pain, grief, and suffering, is our God. 

     

     God’s hand is always in our lives.  He knows exactly what He is doing and why.  He sees the big picture.  Everything that happens to us, God has specifically allowed in order to shape us into the people He wants His children to become.  He has a wonderfully happy and brilliant ending in mind for us and it takes our whole life story to get there…all of the good things and the not so good things. 

 

     I am so thankful that when I feel like I don’t have any strength left, I have a God who will carry me…a God who holds my entire life in His entirely wonderful and capable hands.

 

 

Psalm 34:17-20 - The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Psalm 84:11 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Romans 12:12 - Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.