Regardless of how we see God’s plans for us, they are always good. I doubt that is what they wanted to hear… But He still promised them hope and a future. God’s plan for them included more enslavement! In the verse immediately preceding this statement, however, God had informed them they would spend a total of 70 years in exile. God spoke those words to the Israelites who were in exile in Babylon. ”For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11.
God has no limits or restrictions of time. This verse tells us that God is patient with us, and we need to be patient with His timing. It’s why he recorded so many stories for us in the Bible of people who waited a long time: Abraham and Sarah’s wait for a child, Joseph in slavery and prison, the Israelite’s and the promised land, and Job’s suffering. We can take comfort knowing he has compassion for our impatience. He knows we can feel forgotten and confused. When it stretches on past that, it feels painfully slow to us. We want answered prayers in days or weeks.
We too might think God is slow in His response to us, or not listening. He also wanted them to realize that the time frame for Jesus’ return was not a delay, even though it felt like it to them.
Peter was encouraging the believers who were facing persecution and wanted deliverance. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV) The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.God is the great I AM who knows our past, present, and future.
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(More on how to get to that place is coming up…) But trusting in God’s perspective and wisdom vs my own desires brings me peace. We don’t have to pretend that our losses don’t sting. God saw my disappointment in the canceled vacation plans, the job furlough, and the loss of time with my granddaughters during this virus outbreak. The alternative? Becoming anxious, angry, doubtful, or resentful. The secret in all our life experiences is to be at peace and accept God’s timing. Solomon explains in this chapter of Ecclesiastes that there are wonderful things in life countered with things we may not consider “good”, but it is all within God’s plan.
God’s knowledge and wisdom are far, far greater than ours. (I don’t remember the book but his illustration stuck with me!) He might have even been generous with the dot. That tiny dot of our knowledge symbolized our knowledge compared to God’s. He illustrated it with a big circle on a page with a miniscule dot in the center. I read a book where the author compared our knowledge with that of God’s. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9 NLT. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
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