Wherever you are in life... whatever your beliefs... It is such a comforting and reassuring and peaceful feeling to know that God is in control and that He has a plan. That His plan involved His Son - a Savior and Redeemer to atone for our sins and conquer death. That His plan has a mission statement - "To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." And that the prime objective of His plan is our happiness!
Knowing about His plan changes everything! It gives us an eternal perspective. It gives us hope and faith. It gives us perspective to properly view the challenges of life as blessings from a loving God allowing us to learn patience and faith, tolerance and resilience, endurance, compassion, gratefulness and love. It allows us to look directly into the face of the worst of the storms of life and say, "Do your best!" It can give us a measure of the fortitude of Job, when in the midst of horrendous trials and loss, he responded with uncommon conviction, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” Amazingly, “in all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”
Oh, how wonderful it is that God has a plan!
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Wm. Calvin Hughes
Lake Elsinore, CA
April 12, 2015
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