For I Know The Plans I Have For You, Plans To Prosper You and Not To Harm You, Plans To Give You A Future And A Hope
No Other Name Under The Sun Can Save You
JEREMIAH 29:11-14
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 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. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
”Jeremiah 29:11-14 NKJV
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We are all encouraged by a leader who stirs us to move ahead, a leader who believes we can do the task he has given us, a leader who is with us all the way.
Jesus is that kind of leader. He knows the future, and His plans for us are good and full of hope.
God, who knows the future, provides our agenda and goes with us and empowers us to fulfil His mission (PHILIPPIANS 2:13), and as a result we can have boundless hope. It’s not I that does it, but Christ who lives in me (JOHN 14: 15-18).
This does not mean that we will be spared pain, suffering, and hardship, but God will see us through to a glorious conclusion.
God never forgot His people even though they were captives in Babylon. His plan was to give them a new beginning, with a new purpose-to turn them into a new people.
Sometimes in dire circumstances, it may feel like God has forgotten us. But the truth is, He never leaves or forgets us; although sometimes He stands back to allow us to learn, grow in faith, and become wise-maybe in preparation for what is to come as He did the people of Judah.
According to God's plan, His people were to have a future and a hope, consequently, they could call upon Him in confidence.
Although the exiles were in a difficult place and time, they needed not to despair because they had God's presence, the privilege of prayer, and God's grace.
If we seek Him wholeheartedly, He will be found. Not a strange land, sorrow, persecution, nor any situation at all can break our fellowship with God.
My beloved, their is none like Jesus, His name is above every other name, He has no equal, nor rival, ”Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”“
Acts 4:12 NKJV
Jesus is the only way in this world and the next; He is truth that sets us free; He is the life that defeated death, and He is the only way to our Father in heaven (JOHN 14:6).
Furthermore, it is He who will decide our eternal future.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:35-39 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
