It occurred to me that it can be easy to forget that God is involved in every detail of my life and in every detail of every person’s life.
But God IS involved in every detail of every person’s life.
He knows before we know what is coming into our lives.
He knows when we will receive a bad health report from the doctor, lose a job, lose a spouse, lose a child, have a tragic car accident, or any other stressful event that can take place in our lives. He also knows when the exciting and fun events will take place.
I know that my first response is far too often not what I want it to be when something hard comes my way.
I want my initial response to be a reminder that God knows and is involved in my situation.
I want my initial response to be one of prayerful reliance upon my Creator.
I want my initial response to be one filled with His peace and joy.
God wants me to have those responses, too!
When I get to the point that I realize He is involved, that He is for me, my perspective changes. I am able to rest and relax in the midst of the challenge.
Jeremiah 29:11 is a verse I lean on heavily to calm my anxious heart, and to help me regain proper footing in my struggles: “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.”
It is always good to look at the context for and in a passage.
Jeremiah 29:10-14: “This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.” [God had sent the Israelites into exile because they refused to honor Him and abandon their worship of idols. But God made a promise that their discipline would last a limited time.]
Through the prophet Jeremiah, He gave them a message of hope for their future: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Their response to His mercy and grace would be to turn away from idols and to turn to Him: “Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “
That promise came with another promise, His action on their behalf: “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Since God worked on behalf of His people then, and He is the same God today, He will work on behalf of His people today. Since God had, and still has, good plans for His people, I can trust that He will also take an active role in my life that benefits me.
I need to remember that God is involved in every detail of my life.
I need to remember that He is good.
I need to remember that He disciplines me because He loves me, and sometimes that is the point of my struggles.
I need to remember that He does miracles every day for me.
When I remember the truth of Romans 5:8: “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” My ungodly thinking gets corrected, and I remember how blessed I am that God actively demonstrates His love for me. He does this for you also.
How well do you know the character of God, based upon what the Bible teaches? Knowing God’s character helps us to see His involvement in our daily lives.
Genesis 1:26 reminds us that we are made in God’s image: “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Since we are made in His image, we can be assured that He is personally working events for our benefit [Romans 8:28]. We are privileged to be made in His image, and to have the ability, through the Lord Jesus Christ, to be in a right relationship with our Maker.
If Jesus isn’t your Lord and Savior, why not make that decision NOW? What is holding you back from jumping into His everlasting arms? Please contact me at: ButGodCares@gmail.com, if you want to talk about God, His involvement in our lives, and what it is to have a personal relationship with Him.
Living for Jesus, Donna
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