"The plans I have for you
... are ... good ... to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
A few years ago the Soviet submarine Kursk
went down in the Barents Sea. When the diving crews
finally reached it, they heard SOS signals coming from inside.
Desperate sailors wondered, 'Is there any hope?' Sadly, for them there
wasn't.
Do you feel trapped in an impossible situation you can't seem to change
or escape? If so, God is saying to you today, "the plans I have for you
... are ... good ... to give you a future and a hope."
Now, hope is not just an absence of despair, it's the presence of
something greater; something only God can give. Hope is not
passive; it's the most active force in the world because it's derived
from the most powerful being of all - God. And it's never further
away than He is.
Clint Eastwood became famous for starring in a film called "The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly." Four decades later some of us still use
those words when describing certain aspects of life.
But here's the good news: through His amazing grace God can take the good, the bad and the
ugly experiences in your life and use them to make you unbelievably
better at at what He created you for, whatever that might be! In
God's economy, all is redeemed and nothing is ever lost. He can
take the good things we remember fondly, the bad things we might like
to forget, and the ugly things that shaped us into people we didn't
start out to be, and use all of them to facilitate His purpose for each
and every one of us, So, don't give up hope!