The Plan

So many people are living without any awareness of the plan for their life.  Certainly, none of us live our lives empty of plans   Many have made some good plans for their days which include the big factors for the equation of life such as education, work, family, and even retirement.  And, of course, there are others whose plans carry them toward the edge of self destruction and even beyond.  To say we live empty of plans is not true,  If plans would save us, point us toward what is the very best for our life, we would not need the plan, but of course, all the lesser plans we go after leave us without something required for the most purposeful life.    

The most purposeful life comes from embracing the plan of God for our life.  One of the most oft quoted verse of Scripture about this plan is from Jeremiah 29:11 which says, "For surely I know plans that I have made for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope."  From the very beginning we are reminded that we were not conceived in our mother's womb without purpose.  We do not need to wait for Jeremiah to know this.  All we need to do is to seriously read the book of beginnings in the sacred Word. 

Some may think otherwise.  Some may think more of some random role of the dice, but when we read the first words of the Holy Word, it is clear that what and who is created are created as creations which bear the imprint of the Holy One.  There is nothing about the creation account in Scripture which would suggest that all that is came into being randomly.  On the contrary, every act of creation bears the imprint and the intention of of holy purpose.  We were conceived within the plan of God and we were born into it.  The problem for so many is living into it.