Jeremiah 29:10-12
New Living Translation (NLT)
10 This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen.
My reflections: I have realized that I so often concentrate on what is going on outside and so lost that the peace that should be inside just isn't. funny is that I found reference to verse 11 above; decided to look at the passage a little before and a little after and God brought me to tears -- as I read this is what I heard from my God, my Deliverer:
Rhonda, I know the desert that you walked through, I know the pain that you suffered, AND NOW I want you to know that I have plans for you. My plans are more than you think or realize - just come to me in prayer and I will hear you and I will listen.
tears... God is so good, the promises that we are brought to are just wow. It DOES NOT MATTER, what the people around me do, I have a responsibility to please my God. To do the best job I CAN DO, so that others can see the God working in me. I can not be them and they can not be me, they should not even be expected to be me. I am an individual - I should not look for others to reciprocate my action, instead just be secure in pushing me to the limits that God has provided.
I realize that I am in such a better place. 10 - 11 years ago I was praying for a different outlook; to keep a job; to stop getting fired; TODAY, I sit in an office that faces an amazing testament to art - the Statue of Liberty. I sit in an office that they are not trying to remove me from; I may be able to do more and have the knowledge for a higher paying job, but now I am safe. I have time to hear God. I am married. Yeah, married. My nephew lives with me. My son is home and he eats full meals if he chooses - I keep food in the house. In striving I must take a break from time to time and just count the blessings of where I am at.
Blessed by the name of My Lord, My Rock, My Savior.
My reflections: I have realized that I so often concentrate on what is going on outside and so lost that the peace that should be inside just isn't. funny is that I found reference to verse 11 above; decided to look at the passage a little before and a little after and God brought me to tears -- as I read this is what I heard from my God, my Deliverer:
Rhonda, I know the desert that you walked through, I know the pain that you suffered, AND NOW I want you to know that I have plans for you. My plans are more than you think or realize - just come to me in prayer and I will hear you and I will listen.
tears... God is so good, the promises that we are brought to are just wow. It DOES NOT MATTER, what the people around me do, I have a responsibility to please my God. To do the best job I CAN DO, so that others can see the God working in me. I can not be them and they can not be me, they should not even be expected to be me. I am an individual - I should not look for others to reciprocate my action, instead just be secure in pushing me to the limits that God has provided.
I realize that I am in such a better place. 10 - 11 years ago I was praying for a different outlook; to keep a job; to stop getting fired; TODAY, I sit in an office that faces an amazing testament to art - the Statue of Liberty. I sit in an office that they are not trying to remove me from; I may be able to do more and have the knowledge for a higher paying job, but now I am safe. I have time to hear God. I am married. Yeah, married. My nephew lives with me. My son is home and he eats full meals if he chooses - I keep food in the house. In striving I must take a break from time to time and just count the blessings of where I am at.
Blessed by the name of My Lord, My Rock, My Savior.
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