Trusting God’s good plan for us
I am a firm believer that in order to be filled with the fullness of God, we must be rooted and grounded in the knowledge of His love for us.
“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” - Ephesians 3:19
If we don’t get it down into our spirits that He is a good God, and He has good things in mind for us, then we will have a hard time trusting Him, and following His path for our lives. Putting our faith in a God that we aren’t sure has our best interest in mind is just plain difficult, and to be honest, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Knowing that He cares for us, and has good things in plan for us, makes it easy to trust Him with every area of our lives.
Even consider Job’s situation. God wanted him blessed financially, and even after Satan tore everything apart, God wasn’t going to give up… He turned around and blessed Job with TWICE as much financial blessing as before!
“His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.” - Job 1:3
As if he wasn’t blessed then, let’s see what God ended up doing for Job afterwards!
“So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.” - Job 42:12
One day, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about Job, and said, “I wanted him blessed!” I have news for you - God wants us blessed too, in every area of our lives! Consider the goal of God for Job, even when everything looked black, was to turn around and bless him even more abundantly than before. God wanted His child BLESSED; God has GOOD THINGS in store for His servant!