Finding the More

As the old year is drawing the blinds making way for the new to come, I was thinking about the plans we make.  I was taught that you need to always plan ahead because if you plan for nothing, you will reach it every time .   The Bible speaks about plans - God’s plans: Jer 29:11 AMP - For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the LORD, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. This is a well-known scripture and is filled with hope and potential.  What stood out for me though is that the Lord says “ He knows ” the plans He has for me.  He is not wondering.  He will not have to make an emergency plan to get me out of some issue.  He is already prepared; He knows what He has planned. It is a good plan, and He is ready to walk it out with me.  Then taking it further, I was reminded that it is “His plans” .  He has plans for me.  I know this is where the difficulty comes for people as it means that we have to surrender our own

The year began with a question I was asked.  It seemed insignificant at the time but turned out to change not only my year, but the focus of my life.  The question was based on Revelation 2:4: “Is Jesus still your first love?”  Rev 2:4 (AMPC): But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love]. When I started thinking about it, it struck me how easily we can be distracted by things, good things, Kingdom things, to the point where our focus is so far removed from what's really important.  The Church at Ephesus to which these verses were addressed were doing good Kingdom things. Rev 2:2-3 (AMPC): 2 I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not and have found them to be impost