Devotional - Is your Destination, 'Expected End'?
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV)
Right, lets get a bit creative with our imagination today. Suitcase is packed with swimwear, shorts and sandals. Camera slung round your neck. Sunhat perched on. Passport in bag. You have just said your good-byes to all the neighbours. Told them you are heading off on holidays. But there is a problem. You don't know where you are heading!
Few of us may have found ourselves in this situation. Majority of the time, we plan our vacation. Ssometimes even months in advance. We buy the guidebooks, practice a few phrases, plan our trip down to the letter and hurry the days in the calendar.
But how about the few who enjoy a little more 'excitement'. To you I ask this, have you ever headed to the airport not having an inkling where you are going? Got to the airport and booked what was available. You are however constrained to what is available, pricing, choice of airline, accomodation and destinations that suit the clothes you have packed in your luggage!
Sometimes our lives are like the last scenario. We throw caution to the wind and take what is available. What life has to offer. Good, bad or ugly! Should that be the case? Our Heavenly Father says He has a different agenda for us. He has an expected end for us. Beautiful plans. Yet we wonder why we miss it. How many of us are heading towards our expected end? How many of us even know what it is or one even exists?
We need to know our destination and take steps towards it. Ask God what He desires of us. Speak to Him. Listen. Attend to His instructions. Trust Him. Just come on board. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, so it makes sense to ask Him where to go.
Heavenly Father, thank you for having such good thoughts for me. Lead me in the way I should go. I commit all my plans to you, trusting and knowing you will take me to my destination. In Jesus name, Amen
© August 2006
Right, lets get a bit creative with our imagination today. Suitcase is packed with swimwear, shorts and sandals. Camera slung round your neck. Sunhat perched on. Passport in bag. You have just said your good-byes to all the neighbours. Told them you are heading off on holidays. But there is a problem. You don't know where you are heading!
Few of us may have found ourselves in this situation. Majority of the time, we plan our vacation. Ssometimes even months in advance. We buy the guidebooks, practice a few phrases, plan our trip down to the letter and hurry the days in the calendar.
But how about the few who enjoy a little more 'excitement'. To you I ask this, have you ever headed to the airport not having an inkling where you are going? Got to the airport and booked what was available. You are however constrained to what is available, pricing, choice of airline, accomodation and destinations that suit the clothes you have packed in your luggage!
Sometimes our lives are like the last scenario. We throw caution to the wind and take what is available. What life has to offer. Good, bad or ugly! Should that be the case? Our Heavenly Father says He has a different agenda for us. He has an expected end for us. Beautiful plans. Yet we wonder why we miss it. How many of us are heading towards our expected end? How many of us even know what it is or one even exists?
We need to know our destination and take steps towards it. Ask God what He desires of us. Speak to Him. Listen. Attend to His instructions. Trust Him. Just come on board. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, so it makes sense to ask Him where to go.
Heavenly Father, thank you for having such good thoughts for me. Lead me in the way I should go. I commit all my plans to you, trusting and knowing you will take me to my destination. In Jesus name, Amen
If we don't know where we are going, we can't get to our destination.
© August 2006
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