God Always Has A Plan

And while most people would look at what happened to me as being a bad thing I have to look at it as a blessing! None of these things happened without God knowing about them. In fact I know that it was Him that orchestrated them for my benefit. God is sovereign and He has a plan!

And look at all the health issues that folks here at MKBC have faced lately. Gerald had hurt his leg, Arnie has had blood sugar issues that landed him in the hospital this week, Joe McElderry and his COPD issues, I mean just look at our prayer request list! But God is sovereign and He has a plan!

I know that it seems counter intuitive to most people to be happy about not getting a job that we thought that we wanted, be transferred out of a position that we loved, and say that having a heart attack is a blessing but that’s because we as

Christians are different from most people in the world.

But like I said we need to look at what I have just talked about through the prism of Romans 8:28: And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

We will always face trials and tribulations in our Christian walk. Lost people are not immune from trials and tribulations either. What’s important for us to remember is that we have a Savior who is walking with us through all of our trials and we can face them and still smile because God will use all of our life experiences to make us more like Jesus Christ every day.

And while it may be really easy to get discouraged and down when we are enduring various trials and tribulations, I want to read to you a very powerful passage of Scripture and it is found in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verses 8-9: 8 we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed…

God is always with us no matter what we are going through. We will all be afflicted at some point in our lives and some of us are being afflicted right now but we will not be destroyed by our afflictions because our God is greater than our afflictions!

Sometimes we don’t understand why things are happening to us but the wonderful thing about this is that if we trust in God then we won’t despair. It’s okay to get perplexed and even to despair for a moment but we, as believers, can’t stay in a constant state of despair because we serve a great God who loves us and will help us to understand our circumstances in His time and not ours.

I was struck down for a time with my heart attack but I wasn’t destroyed and that is because God is good! God has lifted me back up and He has a plan for me and I want to be a part of that plan no matter how God decides to work out His plan in my life. What about you? Will you welcome the plan that God has for you no matter what that plan entails? No matter what he requires us to do? God is sovereign and we have to defer to Him in all things at all times!