Sometimes life beats you down so much that you give up hoping and believing that anything good will ever happen for you. If that\u2019s where you are today, read these words: \u2018\u201cI know the plans I have for you,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cThey are plans for good\u2026 to give you a future and a hope.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) <\/p>\n
God has a good plan for each of us, but not all of us experience it. Why? Two reasons: <\/p>\n
(1) We don\u2019t realise we have rights and privileges.<\/i> We believe God can save us and take us to Heaven when we die, but don\u2019t think He can do anything about our past, present, or future. <\/p>\n
(2) We live far below the level He intended because we see ourselves in the wrong light.<\/i> We believe He can bless anybody\u2014except us<\/i>\u2014because we\u2019re not worthy. God has clothed you in the righteousness of Christ, so you\u2019re worthy in His sight and He has plans to \u2018bless you as He has promised\u2019.<\/i> <\/p>\n
In Bible days when a new king came to the throne, he made sure the old king and his family were put to death; that way nobody could rise up against him. So when David replaced King Saul, Mephibosheth, Saul\u2019s grandson, fled to the wilderness in fear. But David was a different kind of king. Instead of seeking to wipe out his predecessor\u2019s family, he asked, \u2018Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan\u2019s sake?\u2019<\/i> (2 Samuel 9:1 NKJV) <\/p>\n
\u2018Why would God bless me<\/i>?\u2019 you ask. The answer is simple but clear: for Christ\u2019s sake! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes life beats you down so much that you give up hoping and believing that anything good will ever happen for you. If that\u2019s where you are today, read these words: \u2018\u201cI know the plans I have for you,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cThey are plans for good\u2026 to give you a future and a hope.\u201d\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}