God's plans

“For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

I want to explain the poem I wrote last week. All of my life I have always had a plan. I had goals, dreams, and an extensive plan on how I would reach those goals. Of course my life rarely ever worked out the way I had planned it. As it turns out, God had different plans for my life, far greater plans than I could ever imagine. 

Even though I am following God, I do not like not knowing what his plans are for me. Even when he shows me a small piece of what he has in store for me, I just want to see the bigger picture.

I have been going to a bible study every other Friday. We have been doing an exercise that has been an excellent illustration of God’s guidance in my life. In our exercise, we were partnered up. Then we were blindfolded. Our partners had to tell us where to go without touching us. In the last exercise, we had to do an activity blindfolded. We had to glue pieces together and make a church magnet.

During these exercises, I noticed a few things. I noticed how difficult it is to follow someone else’s direction when you have no idea where they are  leading you. It takes discipline and commitment to drown out the distractions around you and put all of your trust in someone else. Sometimes it was easy for me to misunderstand what my partner was saying because I could not see her or what was ahead of me. She corrected me when I made a mistake, so that I could be back on track again.

This was a great illustration of God and his plans for us. Circumstances in life are often unexpected. We don’t  know what lies ahead of us. Sometimes when we ask God his direction, it takes a while for us to understand his directions. It is not that God wants us to be confused. He is not the author of confusion. He is the God of the Universe, but we are human. Sometimes the distractions of life prevent us from understanding him. Sometimes God is not ready to reveal the whole picture to us, because he is showing us something through the waiting process.  Regardless of the reason why we do not yet know God’s plans for him, we need to keep our focus on him.

It does not so much matter what our destination is. All we really need to know is that God has amazing plans for our lives. Sometimes we need to stop trying to figure everything out. When we are so focused on figuring everything out, we lose sight of the things that really matter. We need to take a step back and enjoy the journey God has laid out for us. Trust God and let him lead you to your destination. We don’t need to have everything planned or figured out because God already does!