Four Open Secrets About the Rest of Your Life Tell a child you have a secret and you have his undivided attention. All of us children - big and little, young and old - love secrets; love to hear them, love to tell them. Today, I am opening the vault and revealing four of the best-kept secrets in the Kingdom of God . Secret #1 - God has big plans for you. Jeremiah 29:11 says it best. I know the plans I have for you: plans for your welfare and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope. His plans for us fall into two categories - earthly and heavenly. Secret #2 - He is not going to tell you what they are. In His compassion, God makes big plans for us. In His wisdom, He does not tell us what they are. He protects us from knowledge of the future for two reasons. (1) We could not handle it. (2) We would mess it up. Suppose you found out that your brothers were going to fake your death and sell you into slavery, and that you would end up forgotten and forsaken in a foreign prison for years. Who could handle such news? Most of us would grieve over such a future and grow bitter toward our brothers and angry at God. In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Joseph experiences precisely such a fate. Suppose the Lord told you that one day you would become the kings second-in-command and live in power and luxury for the rest of your life. Who could handle news like that without becoming distracted? This, too, is the story of Joseph in Genesis. Scripture promises the Lord will not put more on us than we can bear. One way He does that is by withholding details about our future. The burdens would rob us of our joy and threaten to destroy us in advance, while the blessings would distract us from our responsibilities of the moment. Secret #3 - God is working on His plans this very moment. He is getting you ready for the future and getting the future ready for you. Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you. If I go away, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14:1-6). He is getting Heaven ready for us. He is getting us ready for Heaven. One way God prepares us for future challenges is by giving us difficulties and hardships. He strengthens us the same way a personal trainer builds our muscles: by laying on stress. It is good for me that I was afflicted, the psalmist said, that I might learn thy statutes. (Psalm 119:71) Thats how it works. Secret #4 -- Your job is to be faithful today. Bloom where you are planted, as the saying goes. The way to be ready for tomorrows opportunities is to do our job today, no matter how insignificant or routine. Joe McKeever
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 03:41:19 +0000
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