Comfort words

Though the mountains be shaken
And the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,
says the Lord, who has compassion on you. - Isaiah 54: 10 (NIV)

Been high and low recently... trying to figure out all the changes that occured in my life...
...spiritually, physically, emotionally...

After months of thinking and drifting ... praying and pleading...

I realize some simple truth...

I haven't really grasp the love of God...

I mean...I know He loves me, but living a life out of His love for me and His love in me...

Yesterday there was a verse that caught my attention:

Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children, and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. - Ephesians 5:1-2 (NIV)

I realized I can only live a life of love as He did, when I come to full realization that I am a loved child of my Father in heaven.

He's been good, too good to me, as a Father, while I am often drifting in the sea of doubt due to my circumstances. Questions come and go, but how do I tell that after all these years with HIM.... He is the One who is unwavering, yet I am the one who is so fickle.

Then the popular verse of Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) strucked me:
"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 hope and a future."

I realize there are new comforts as I read this verse. (as usual, some popular verse seemed too familiar to us that we often missed out the best meaning of it.)

First and foremost, I take my comfort in the part : For I know. The best part of this verse is not laying in the fact that the plans are to prosper and not to harm, to give hope and future. I realized today, the best part of the verse is that HE KNOWS. He knows all the details, the good and the bad, the right and the wrong in our lives. Yet He proclaimed: I know. I know. I know. I took comfort in His assuring acknowledgement.

Second, the planS. :D I used to think that God only has 1 plan for each of us. I realized I was wrong. He simply stated, He has plans. Not only ONE plan, but PLANS. I am so glad He has plans, not just plan for my future.

I may have a long way to go to live as His beloved child. Yet I take comfort in His promise. He knows and He has plans. It's enough :)

Thank You Lord, for your comforting word of truth :D

~in the midst of anxiety about the future~