God Loves You And Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life...Explained

I know you’ve heard the phrase. I’ve heard the phrase. I’ve said the phrase. Yes, God loves me and you, but come again about that wonderful plan? Will I recognize it? Can I miss it? Will God forget to put together one for me?

Perhaps the idea is taken from a scripture I’ve referenced in another blog entry: “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.” Jeremiah 29:11

You may feel like you’ve been waiting for that wonderful plan of God’s to come as one awaits a job offer or a prince charming or a model wife. Maybe those things are exactly your idea of a wonderful plan. Each morning brings the hope that today could be the day. Or maybe you’ve given up on its arrival altogether. You’ve stood in the wonderful-plan line for years while others skipped ahead and received their wonderful plans while you watched in angst.

It’s been said many times before if God never did another thing for us other than give us the gift of eternal life, we should have all we need. While this is indeed true, in faith we believe God has a plan for each of us to live out here on earth. Each of us can name people who seem to go from bigger to better, greater to grander, as God paves the way to their hopes and dreams. Each of us can name people who seem to get the backhand of God through tragedy, illness, or loss. If this person is you, you could be living as if you’re on the sidelines of the God-life… watching, waiting, feeling cheated- your discouragement settling into bitterness.

God wouldn’t be a just God if He played favorites. “For God so loved the world,” and that includes you, “that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” He does have a brilliant plan for your life, but it may not be what you might expect. I wish to tell you what that plan is. No matter who you are, where you live or what you do, if you have accepted the salvation of Christ, I know what God’s wonderful plan is for you.

He wants to conform you into the image of His son.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew He also predestined (predetermined) to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He (Jesus) might be the firstborn among many brothers (you and me). Romans 8:28-29

God loves you so much He wants you to be just like the Son. He wants to work the character that Jesus displayed here on earth in you. The same will. The same patience. The same passion. The same faithfulness. The same love. The same choices. The same holiness. Opportunities may come along that you would deem wonderful that God has blessed for you to do, yet they are but little tastes of icing with the cake. Ultimately all that comes your way in this life is a tool to work Jesus’ character in you. The good things, the bad things, the in-between-things and the hard to understand things all point you toward God’s goal for you. You can stay with the plan, or you can choose to jump ship. Should you choose to jump ship, perhaps your soul will be greatly relieved for a time. However, you will miss out on the inner-workings of God- all the handcrafted details that cause a man or woman to look and act as if they have truly been with God, even a dwelling for the Holy Spirit of God. The entire project is a wonderful God-conceived plan visibly worked out in you. While God can transform in the twinkling of an eye, His working ways are also described as a potter’s craft, shaping and forming as clay turns on the wheel, or how a refiner can purify silver, by the old process of heating to bring out impurities. Working, shaping, spinning, forming, firing, purging… into the character of Christ we go.

God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.