Day 12: Self-reflection

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

    Personally, this verse is my devotion for today. I will let the passage I read to talk to you today because I am also reflecting and learning about it. We need others’ reflection, too. We need it because we know that different people have different perspectives about a certain verse. We have different inputs, and I want to share the one I saw today. It is from the YouVersion bible plan provided by Loop. I am blessed by this and I hope this will bless you too.

Do You Wonder About the Plan?

    I know you want to see what’s ahead. I know it is difficult to not know, to not know what is around the corner. I know you wonder if I have a plan.

    My daughter, how could I not have a plan for this world? How could I not have a plan for you? Do you wonder now, what does it mean for Me to have a plan? Does it mean Me knowing all the details of a moment in the future? Does it mean Me having designs stretched out for what’s ahead, a purpose considered, an arrangement in place?

    What if I told you the plan I have for you is not for you to worry about? What if I told you there is only a small part you can understand of all the things I know and the things I want you to know and the things you just don’t need to be concerned with?

    Here is my plan: I have good for you. It is my desire that you know Me, that you love Me, that you follow Me, that you serve Me. It is my plan, it is my desire, that you want to be with Me, that you want to talk with Me, that you stay here, in this moment with Me, and concern yourself with knowing Me now, this moment, and not considering all the details about the future that I know and you don’t.

    What do you want to know? What do you want to know that you think I am holding out on you?

    Here is what you need to know: I love you, and I never forget you. Your life is my preoccupation. You are part of my plan for this world, which I love and which I desire to heal and bring to life and have know Me. I don’t want this world to miss out on what I’ve always had for it, as I hold out my hand . . . as I hold out my hand.

    There you go. Let us together trust God and His ways only. We just have to focus on Him and love Him with all of our hearts.

    Have a blessed day!

Song for you: Shadow Step by Hillsong United

 Always looking up,
J


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