For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Funny how some things work out. How God is teaching you the same thing as someone else and the verse that you have heard forever just hits you in the way it needs to in that moment of life. I was reading a college friend's email and watching the show when this verse was on the email and it just hit me in all directions like it never has before. I just thought that I would write about what this verse means to me know in this moment in my life. I always tend to think of this verse as the graduation verse and most of us do because it is on every graduation present but there is so much more meaning behind it.
I've been hurting a lot both emotionally and physically because working with children especially the type I work with can do that to a person. The first part of the verse is self explained. it means God has and knows the plans for you and you can trust in that. The second part is what really hit me through. The part where it says: "plans to prosper you and not to harm you".
Like I said, before, I have been hurting emotionally because of the children I work with and just a lot of personal things going on in my life right now like not being there for the people I care for because they don't really understand and other things. I've had older and wiser women tell me that for now and until God thinks I'm ready for whatever it may be, He is just protecting me from what could be something harmful for me. God wants me to prosper, He doesn't want me it end up on the road and be harmed. He loves me too much to let that happen to me.
I use to hate when people would tell me, "Oh! God is only trying to protect you and He knows what is best for you." I would think, "I want it know, though." If I don't do that about friends, I really do it about my future and my plans I have for it. When you look at the word "prosper" in a friendship/relationship kind of way then it is the sweetest thing ever. You can see how much God really does love you! God wants to give you that kind of prosper friendship but you need to look at Him first because He is your Source.
Think of the word "prosperity". It means: a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition". Plans to make you successful and thrive where you are right now! Make you want more and work for it! Don't you want that in a friendship or in your future! Don't you want to trust in that! It is like that is what your work and living space has to be like. Somewhere where you can flourish and thrive in. Your heart has to be that way towards God. Let Him work in it! Thrive for Him! Flourish everything you do with Him in mind!
Then the 3rd part of the verse is "to give you a hope and a future". He wants us to have success for Him. He will give us a future if we just prosper through everything even the hard times. How can you become successful and flourish if you don't know what the hard times are like? Am I right? Right now, I might not be in the successful part of my life or future but I am in the flourishing and thriving part of it. I am really thriving now but I think I have a little bit more time in the flourishing part before I move on. I am learning and growing so I can become more successful in the future. God has given me this chance so I can know how much more I want the next step and get ready for it but yet use my talents while I'm doing that.
God is expanding my world so I can be more successful in the long run. He is showing me things to do and not to do through everything. He will not harm me in anyway as long as I follow Him and keep my eyes upwards on Him.
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