For I know the plans I have for you...

Jeremiah 29:11 "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"

If we were to think of ourselves as He thinks of us, how happy and satisfied we would be. How full of joy. We would be at peace. We would sense a complete absence of strife, stress, and anxiety.

He is alive in our hearts, where we invited Him to live. He wants to fill us to overflowing. He says to keep our heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the very issues of life..but at times it seems that many of us war against our own precious hearts. Instead of sensing His overflowing presence, we are filled with guilt, hopelessness, self disgust, anger, or pain. When we allow those things in, for lack of a better way of putting it, it's like jumping in to an empty grave, because there is no life in living by our negative emotions, rather than living by faith in the Son of God...
Because He is RISEN from the grave. He has called us from outside the grave. He wants us to leave behind the war that has been in our hearts..to bury hopelessness and guilt..and to sit with Him in heavenly places where He has made a place for us.

Your heavenly Father is slow to anger, gracious and merciful and full of steadfast love. Shake yourself loose from the dust. Loose yourself from the bonds around your neck, and enjoy being His child.