Today's readings are Numbers 23.4-28 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Num.+23.4-28 ) and Luke 22.47-71.
What has God planned for me today? It's so very easy to decide on my plans for the day while completely ignoring God's plans for the day. And when my plans differ from God's plans, I'm headed for a train wreck. God's plan will be done. He will bring to pass all he has foreordained in this world today. What he has promised will surely happen. And what is his plan? It is for the good of his people, not for ill. Blessing, he will bless us. Healing, he will heal us. He is sure to do according to his good pleasure, and his pleaure is indisputably good. Recall the message the Lord gives to his people through the false prophet Balaam in Numbers 23.19. "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" (ESV). How much more should Christ's people realize his good pleasure and plan!
Rejoice in the Lord! All he brings into your life today is going work for the good of his people, including you. While it may not always seem immediately pleasant, he is using it all to accomplish his good purpose in this world.
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