Has God Got It Wrong?
Living your plan B
Most of the time, I am okay about being housebound with severe M.E (sometimes known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). After years of the illness it has become normal. But this morning it was not okay.
And suddenly I was Paul, stuck in chains under house-arrest, seeing all of his hopes and desires for ministry to the far nations wither away, his substantial gifts of debate and preaching atrophying as he spent the hours in chains, counting the hours as they passed. I was Paul, thinking, ‘Has God rejected me? Was I being punished in some way?’But God hadn’t got it wrong
with the churches to encourage and teach them was to write. So he wrote – and as a result we have most of the New Testament today.
In light of eternity
What we think of as our greatest achievements, may, in the light of eternity, be nothing; what we think of as our weakness may, in the light of eternity, be our greatest achievement.
The 'Plan Z' of the cross was God's glorious Plan A. Actually, in the end, it’s not about the achievements - it's about Jesus. I go back to reading the passage and pray Paul's words for myself:
'But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ' (Phil 3:7-8).
Over to you:
When are you tempted to think God has got it wrong, that you are living your plan B/C/Z?
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