Stay With the Plan

Throughout Jesus’ ministry, there were often times when those who made the choice to follow Him weren't clear about His real mission (John 6:35-59, Mark 8:14-38). Their lack of understanding caused them to question His motives, or maybe even His sanity. Yet, Jesus stayed true to the plan; He kept pursuing the way to redeem humankind.

Romans 5:6-8, “You see,. at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly… (8) God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Sometimes we are put in awkward situations, stressful situations, or scary situations where we must press on towards the prize, even when no one else “gets it.” Philippians 3:13-14, “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Each of us has to decide to continue to follow God’s plan even when it seems risky or insane. All throughout the story of God’s guidance to the Promised Land, those who chose to follow had to go against human fear and even against logic at times.

The more we “see” His plan, the more we can see how our obedience to that plan isn’t risky or careless or insane. God knows that when we trust Him enough to do what he told us to do and modeled through His son, that we will reach the prize we all long to have: eternal life! No more death! Peace!

1 Peter 1:3-7, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy, He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this, you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”