God's Plan for You

Jeremiah 29:11...I've written about this verse before. It was a verse written in my bible from my parents, always spoken over me and given to me time and time again. I know it well. I should say I can recite it well but there are plenty of days I don't "know" it.

Blake and I are going through a book "His thoughts toward You". Last night the title was God's plan for you. It started out with Jeremiah 29:11 and went on to tell us what the Lord thought of us. it says "If you were to think of yourself as I think of you, how glad, how healthy, how satisfied you would be. Your mind and body would be at peace. you would feel an absence of stress, a release from anxiety"..."Why would you war against your own precious heart? Self disgust is lifeless and loveless. When you allow thoughts of hopelessness, it is like jumping into a deep, empty grave. In the grave there is no life, no love." "But I am risen from the grave. Come out now! Leave your war behind. Bury hopelessness but do not bury yourself. Sit with me...you can hear me better when you are at my side. Shake yourself from the dust, loose yourself from the bonds around your neck and enjoy being a child of My heart.

I think I would like a day to sit beside Him, to have joy in Him, to be as free as a child swinging in the sun....to soak it all in. I need Him in these days. I can not make it on my own. I can feel the enemy creeping up and need all the help I can get to think of myself the way He thinks of me...a child of His heart. Remind me that I am free in you Lord.