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| Being Content Yesterday; Why I'm Content Today |
| Yesterday I talked about contentment, and how it's not the antithesis of chemical imbalance depression. Part of my contentment is knowing, truly knowig and believing that God is in control of everything. He knows everything that is going on and He knows all the possible outcomes. I believe He intervenes only when a circumstance diverts from His Ultimate Plan.
Now let's talk about God's plan: God has an ultimate plan to destroy evil (Satan) and prove that He is the one true God. Why is He taking so long about it? I don't know - maybe to allow Satan plenty of time to try his best. God's Ultimate Plan is the most important thing ever, ever! Our little human plans and grand designs give us something to do while we are here on earth, but in The Big Scheme of Things their success or failure are only important in how they affect the Big Scheme.
I have no way of knowing how my actions, successes and failures affect God's Ultimate plan - I can only assume they promote the plan or just don't interfere with it. I fully believe that if I face failure, humiliation, want, illness, or even death, that the Lord has considered the result in His Big Scheme. I know that if I suffer, I do so for God. And I know that if I prosper, I do so for God.
I can't tell you how comforting it is to face poverty, abandonment, illness, or even college exams knowing that the Lord knows everything that is going on with me, and He cares. He even intercedes for me, and turns situations in more positive direction sometimes - but only if it doesn't interfere with His Big Scheme Of Things. To think about His presence, His caring and His industry is like sinking into a large, soft overstuffed chair.
To know that no matter what my circumstance is, all I have to do is my best - God has guaranteed the outcome will serve, or at least not interfere with, His Ultimate Plan - relaxes me. The outcome is not totally dependent upon me; God is right there with me. I don't have to be totally responsible.
Now you know how deeply I believe and trust in God.
This next subject seems to me to be a logical conclusion to what I've written above: I'm not afraid of death and never have been. I've known from diapers (practically) that God's decisions are the best decision, and if He says it's time to go home, I'm happy about that.
I've also known, almost that long, that Heaven is the destination that awaits me when I die. Sometimes I'm impatient - I'm tired of living in the rotten world where unspeakable things happen every day, and it only gets worse with time. I become self-centered, and self-pitying, for getting that if God's decision is for me to stay a while, that He knows best. Then I get straightened out.
Today, I am raising my children for the Lord (I could be doing a better job of that!) I am communicating to an undisclosed (at the least to me) number of internet friends, aquaintances, and strangers. Today I went forward with an internet based recycling project in my area - I'm doing my part to reduce the amount of useable items that go into landfills. Today, I am doing things for God's Ultimate Plan.
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| See also: God, contentment, plan, Heaven |
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