1573 This Is God’s Plan

What would you need to do to make God love you? What area of your life would you need to clean up so that God could bless you? How could you make yourself better so that God would choose you for something good?

These were questions that used to rule my days. I was always trying to earn my way into God’s good grace. Checking all the boxes was exhausting. I could do it for a little bit of time, but eventually I would fall short again and struggle. And when I struggled, I assumed God was disappointed in me again. And then, I would hide.

Are you afraid God is disappointed in you? Have you been hiding in your struggle?

My sister, God is not disappointed in your struggle. He’s disappointed that you would think your performance is what he’s looking for. Let’s get this straight. God is GOD. He’s like the hardest person in the world to buy for, because he already has everything. He’s hard to impress because he can already do everything. He’s hard to entertain because he already knows everything. And yet, Zephaniah 3:17 tells us God rejoices over us and delights in us.

You, as you are, are exactly who God wants. You are who he has chosen. You are the one he rejoices over and delights in. And there’s only one thing he is asking you to do. One thing that would make him happy. One thing that he wants from you. And this one thing will make everything else right.

The one thing God wants from you is your faith. Just believe him. Believe he is loving and he is good. Believe he is involved in the details of your life. Believe in his promises over you. And if you will simply BELIEVE, everything else is made right.

It’s not your performance. It’s not your consistently checked boxes. It’s not your wisdom to know what to do, then your ability to make yourself do what you know to do. Nope, none of that. If you could do this on your own, then you would actually deserve your blessings. And if you deserve the blessings, they’re no longer blessings, they’re payments. And if you can earn it because you deserve it, you could also lose it because of your shortcomings.

And through it all, we’ve taken the gift out of the blessing God offers us. Girl, you didn’t earn this. You couldn’t possibly earn this. The blessings in your life are the result of a good God who takes specific delight in YOU. He owed you nothing, yet he gives you everything.

Romans 4 recounts the story of Abraham told in Genesis. Remember, Abraham was this old man with an old wife, and they were unable to have children. There was nothing they could do to earn children. It simply wasn’t possible. But, God comes to Abraham and tells him, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

What if God whispered a dream into your soul that made absolutely no sense? What if he gave you a peak at the works he planned to do simply because he delights in you, and what if those works were impossible? Would you dismiss them? Would you disqualify yourself? Would you try to hush that desire and opt for something more reasonable?

That’s exactly what we do! We disqualify ourselves because we believe it’s up to us to do it. Girl, this isn’t about you. This is about God. Abraham was receiving the promise of a God Plan, and when it’s a God Plan, only God can pull it off. You have 2 roles in a God Plan … believe it and get out of the way!

I have to wonder what God Plans we’ve gotten in the way of. What impossible dreams has God breathed into us,