(Disclaimer: not everything I saw may be completely correct. But this is what I feel God putting on my heart)
I thought this was really cool, because I found a hidden meaning for this verse.
(don't you just love finding a new meaning to a verse you've looked at 100 times?)
Most of all let love - God is love!
In another sense this verse states,"Most of all let God guide your life."
After all God knows what's best for you. He knows you better than anyone does. (Psalm 139:13- For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.)
"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
He only wants what is good for us. God will wreck our plans when He knows they're about to wreck you.
This being said, I don't want it to come across as a threat at all. God isn't out to destroy you every time your plans don't fit into His bigger one. I'm pretty sure our plans and God's will never match up exactly (Isaiah 55:8-9). Being followers of Christ will mean we will suffer in some way. This may include our plans being torn apart for God to make a way for His better one.
All our struggles may be God trying to take away what we don't need.
In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:6
In what ways? Does this mean everything we do? I'm sure it does :)
It is so so so hard to think about God during our regular day-to-day activities. It takes immense effort to do this seemingly simple task.
If we take the time to meditate on God every day I promise we will be able to God working in our life in ways we may have never noticed before.
(He is making our paths straight!)
If you continue in my word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. -John 8:31-32
I never have seen this verse before, but when I ran across it finally (today) I immediately thought of the word, "word" as "path". (of course)
If you continue in my path you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free...
This reminds me of Matthew 16:24-26 (this is the take up your cross verse)
If we continue in God's path for us we will surely find the truth He wants us to know. I don't understand this truth completely.
But as I travel deeper into His word and farther down His path I will find true peace and freedom in Him. How beautiful does that sound?
