Standing on my Soap Box

Have you ever had life throw you a curve ball? As you know, I have, a time or two, and am in the midst of another one. Anyway today I am reading the book When God Doesn’t Fix It by musician Laura Story. A few blogs ago entitled “When life changes”, I wrote the lyrics to one of her songs, Blessings. This book is about a struggle/situation she faced, and in fact has an online bible study starting on the 20th of June this year.

In the part I am reading right now, she is praying about her husband who wasn’t well, and she says to God “How am I supposed to serve him, when he doesn’t believe that I have his best interest at heart.” She felt a warm loving voice envelop her and God speaking clearly to hear heart “Laura, I do that for you every day, I love you and I care for you. I have been faithful to you, yet you doubt me every step of the way. Even now you think I’m trying to harm you, not do something good for you.” God’s plans supersede mine, and rather than trust him, I argue why my plans were better than his and I doubt his goodness.

So let’s get back to Jeremiah 29. When things are going rough the first thing that people tell us, or we remind ourselves is that Jeremiah 29:11 – I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. This is a great verse by the way, however, I looked at Jeremiah 29: 8 -10. Firstly, it says do not let your prophets and diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which YOU caused to be dreamed. Jeremiah 29:10 states that “after seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you

Ok, the tires in my mind are going SCREECH! Seventy years?!? Seventy years!! Wait a minute in seventy years I will be dead!

So, lets skip past verse 11, and go to verse 12. Then you will call upon me, and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. Now here is my favorite part – Verse 14 – I WILL BE FOUND BY YOU… Not I will be found 10 miles away, or I will be found in the next city, NO, I will be found BY you! Hebrews 13:5b states I will never leave you. Sometimes we need to also remember the “IN faith” chapter of Hebrews. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This chapter goes through many men (and a few women) of the faith who By faith, through faith and with faith believed that God in his wisdom.

So, do I believe that God has plans for me? YEP! Do I trust him explicitly – NOPE, but I am working on it. So now I am going to leave you with a myth and the truth that Laura Story has in her book

Myth: God’s primary desire is to fix broken things

Truth: God’s primary desire is to fix my broken relationship with him.