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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 9/28/15 - Embrace the Plan
"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." Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
"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." Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
One of the things many of us struggle with in the beginning of our recovery and walk with God is the idea of Him actually taking the time to create a plan for our lives. We look at the mess we have made ourselves and the condition we are currently in and wonder how could God possibly use this? Oh we are happy to be rescued from those circumstances and to be place on a new path, and we will gladly stay on that path if it means we don't have to go back to where we came from, but the idea of being used by God to help others is at best a foreign concept to us. We feel unworthy. God you surely can't be talking to us. Don't you know where we came from and how bad we used to be?
The truth is we are exactly the kind of folk God can use most. The folk who are sorry damage we have caused and a desire to make it right. The folk who know hurt and pain and what it's like to be healed. The folk who have been changed. Like the songwriter said, "a saint is just a sinner who fell down."
The truth is God rescued you for a purpose. He has a divine plan for your life. Doesn't matter where you came from or what you did. He has a plan for you. Study His Word and find out what it is. He'll give you what you need to carry it out. You just have to put your doubts aside and embrace it!
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