Friday, January 11, 2013

"We Know That GOD Causes All Things To Work Together For Good"

Our plans and dreams

"In his heart a man plans his course--
but the LORD determines his steps." 
Proverbs 16:9

"Many are the plans in a man's heart--
but it is the LORD's purpose which 
prevails." Proverbs 19:21

There are few entirely unbroken 
lives in this world; there are few 
men who fulfill their own hopes 
and plans, without thwarting or 
interruption at some point. 

Now and then, there is one who in early 
youth marks out a course for himself--
and then moves straight on in it to its goal.

But most people's lives are very 
differently from their own early dreaming. 
Many find at the close of their life, that 
in scarcely one particular, have they 
realized their own life-dreams; 
at every point GOD has 
simply set aside their plans--
and substituted HIS own. 

There are some people whose 
plans are so completely thwarted, 
that their story is most pathetic. 
Yet we have but to follow it through 
to the end, to see that the broken 
life was better and more effective, 
than if their own plans had 
been carried out.

"We know that GOD causes all 
things to work together for good 
to those who love GOD, to those 
who are called according to HIS 
purpose!" Romans 8:28
 
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GraceGems has published Timothy Shay Arthur's insightful 2 page article,
"Giving That Does Not Impoverish".

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