Good day, this is Michael De Rosa and this is the second in a series of sermonettes on the Abundant Life is from Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
This verse runs across the grain of a life that has been screwed up. How can anyone, let alone God, want to help someone who has sowed a life of poor choices, of one who has turned his back on wisdom in order to look for -what has come to be— only fleeting pleasures.
The truth of the matter is that we all deserve to reap the consequences of how we have chosen to live with what we have or have not been given.
Yet, there is a greater truth: Namely that God in His grace and mercy can…and will… and desires to redeem us from such hopelessness
…because His plans for us are good.
His way for us already takes into account the mess we have made out of our lives as He provides us with that which we don’t deserve, namely a peace-filled life
I can not think of a better plan!
Can you?