God’s Simple Plan

Deut  28-29  God’s  plan  is  pretty  simple:  obedience  leads  to  blessing  and  disobediences  leads  to  curses.  His love is deep and wide. It extends not to just the Jew, but to each Gentile believer as well. Although Jeremiah wrote these words to encourage those in Babylonian captivity, the principle is as true now as then. ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you.  I  have  plans  to  give  you  a  future  filled  with  hope.”  [Jer 29:11]  Yet,  even  though  this  is  written  for  our  admonition  we  are  much  like  the  Israelites,  a  stubborn  people.  We  want  to  come  to  God  on  our  terms,  not  His,   and  then  we  wonder  why  we  are  faced  with  such  grievous  lives.  He  reminds  us  that  “The  secret  things  belong  to  the  Lord  our  God,  but  those  that  are  revealed  belong  to  us  and  our  descendants  forever,  so  that  we  might  obey  all  the  words  of  this  law” [Deut 29:29].

Today may we choose to honor Him from whom all blessings flow and watch and see what He will do!