The New Plan

There was a time in my life when I thought I had it all figured out. I thought I had "the plan", and the skills to make it happen. I thought I was smart and because of that, life would be smooth sailing. God had another plan for me. It was not a plan of smooth seas, self reliance, and self confidence. It was a perfect plan--one that would bring my face down before my Creator, humbly crying out to my God who is mighty to save. His plan was simply to show me my own depravity, my own inability to even control my own life, and my need for Him. In keeping with the title of this blog, He showed me my wretched heart, and the wretched state of a life without Him.

And now He is calling me to a new plan. I know enough to know that I will never fully understand this plan until it is complete and I pass from this world into eternity. I know enough to know that He desires that I look to Him for the answer to every question (Proverbs 3:5-6), the comfort for every need (2 Corinthians 1:3-4), and the strength to run this race to the end (Hebrews 12:1).

The plan now is to continue to daily come face to face with the Lord (Psalm 27:8) through His word, prayer, and worship, that in the light of His glory, my darkness may be turned to light (John 8:12) and my mind may be renewed (Romans 12:2). The plan is to learn His word, and to hide it in my heart, that I might not sin against Him (Psalm 119:11). The plan is to learn to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit within me, teaching me, guiding me, and helping me to walk uprightly (John 14:26). The plan is to serve the Lord, me and my household (Joshua 24:15). The plan is to be more like Jesus.

I do recognize that I have just jumped all over the Bible, and would ask only that you bear with me as I seek the Lord on what this blog will become. Right now I am zealous, perhaps without knowledge, desiring only to share my thoughts on the things Jesus Christ has done for me and revealed to me about myself. I pray always as I post, that those who read this might be encouraged and drawn only closer to the Lord.

"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as [is] the manner of some, but exhorting [one another], and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25