I have plans for your future...

Continuing the thought from yesterday, that God finds me beautiful. I think we (or I) too often forget just how much I mean to God. I get so involved in trying to find God, please God, live for God, that I lose sight of how wonderfully made I am!

And yet, remember that I am precious to God, that God finds pleasure in me, that I am fearfully, wonderfully made, this remembrance brings such deep peace and joy. How can I forget that to God, I am unique? How can I fail to remember words of Jeremiah 29:11, "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." 

We so often worry about how to approach God. And yet, according to scripture, God is already in our heart. As we read in Luke 17:21, Do you not know, the kingdom of God is within you?

And I would add, God wants us to believe, "you are so beautiful...to me."

For the Sheer Beauty of It

Flowers of the Wild

I like to think of the flowers in the wild. Here they are offering their beauty to all, whether seen or unseen, appreciated or unappreciated. It doesn't matter. They stand in their own splendor and follow the seasons for the sheer sake of it.

If only we could be so sure of our worth, sure enough not to need the compliments of passerbys. If we were more in touch with our God within, we would know the loveliness we have to offer. It isn't so much standing in our own splendor and follow the seasons of life with greater joy and confidence. It's conscious giving to that One who cares, and not caring about all the rest. Hard, I agree. But a worth while pursuit.