A plan

Worship was awesome today at C3.  The music was great.  Pastor talked about the fact that God does care about the details of our lives.  Sometimes we might feel like He is unaware of what is happening to us and that He does not care and we wonder why He doesn’t do something about it.  Especially when things keep happening to us that just don’t seem fair and are hard.

But Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has a plan for us.  “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.”  When man disobeyed God in the garden sin entered the world.  Because of that sin, things aren’t perfect in this world and go wrong.  We have to remember that we have an enemy who wants us to get our focus off God and focus on the problems.  He wants us to think that God does not care about us.  However, that is just not true.  We have to remind ourselves that God does have a plan for us and that we are just passing through.  Earth is not my home.  My home is in heaven.

Another thing is that as we struggle through our difficulties others are watching us.  What I am going through is not all about me.  Yes, God wants to grow me and use me.  But it’s not all for me.  He wants me to be an example for others.  So I guess the question is, when I struggle, do I kick, scream and whine or do I allow God to shape, grow and build character in me?  Do I allow Him to use me so others can see Him.   I am on a journey that impacts others.  Am I having a good impact or a bad impact on them?  In that I mean, am I leading them to God in how I handle things or are they being driven from God by how I handle things.  I need to keep my focus on God instead of what is happening to me. 

Thanks Pastor Byron for allowing God to use you to share a great message this morning.