Thinking

"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. Then you will call upon me and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:11-13

I have this scripture saved on my desktop, and usually every day I open it to read it during my work day. Every time I read it speaks to me. That’s one of the beauties of scripture I guess. You can read the same verse over and over again throughout your life, and every time it’ll speak in a different way to you.

You know what I just realized? That in this passage, the Lord is saying that He knows the plans he has for us…plans to prosper us and not to harm us. The thing is, it’s a plan, its not something we already have in fulfillment. Then it says, THEN you will call upon me…and all that other stuff. Meaning, when God gives you a promise, or shows you what he has for you, It doesn’t mean we have it made. It doesn’t mean that that’s it, you don’t have to do anything else. It doesn't mean we just get to sit around and watch it happen.

NO! it means that now…call upon him, pray to him, seek him with all of our hearts!...and in the process those plans he has for you will come to pass. But throughout the process, we need to be doing what it says in that scripture after the THEN part.

Many times we don’t. Sorry, not many times, most of the time. We receive this great word, or great revelation, but then we lack on the fellowship, on the communion with God.

So I guess this is even for me. I can’t lack on my relationship with him. I can’t lack on seeking him. Because its me seeking the one who is giving me a future, who is giving me my Life. The one who is loving me so much that he wants to prosper me and not harm me.

Like my dad says, God is more interested in the being than the doing. So its not about having to do these things to receive his promise. But its being that person who desires, longs for that relationship, for that closeness. Anywho…just wanted to put this in writing for myself more than anything.

I don’t want to loose track of what I’m already supposed to be doing. Regardless of the plans, and the promises, I’m still his daughter, and as his daughter, I want to know my father.