EMBRACING GOD'S PLAN=FOR YOUR LIFE

 

EMBRACING GOD'S PLAN

FOR YOUR LIFE

I know

That you have a PLAN

For your life

But God has a PLAN

For your life too

EMBRACE GOD'S PLAN

“When Joseph awoke-

He did

As the angel of the Lord had commanded

And took his wife

Into his home”                                                                                           Matthew 1:24

EMBRACE God's plan

For your life

It is the ONLY plan that works

It is often said:

“LIFE is what happens

While you are making your plans”

When I was young

My plan was

To get established

In my career

Settle down-

Get married and raise a family

But God HAD OTHER PLANS

On my 22nd birthday

I had a life/death operation

And made a commitment to God

For a lifetime

And in June of that year

The illness became chronic

My life was FOREVER CHANGED

According to God's plans-and-

According to my promise to LIVE FOR-

and to TESTIFY for him

For the rest of my life

“But the plans

Of the Lord

STAND FIRM FOREVER

The purposes of his heart

Through ALL generations”                                                                    Psalm 33:11

“For I know

The PLANS that I have for you

Declares the Lord

Plans to prosper you

And not to harm you

Plans to give you HOPE

And a FUTURE”                                                                                        Jeremiah 29:11

Saint Joseph=whose life

WE celebrate today

Had a plan

For his life too

He planned to be a carpenter

To marry Mary-

And to raise a family

But God had other plans

For his life

As he may have

For your life

And Joseph EMBRACED God's plan

For his life

No matter how different

It may have been

You too-as I must too

EMBRACE GOD'S PLAN

For your life

No matter

WHERE it may take us

We must follow God

We MUST FOLLOW Jesus

“SURELY your goodness and love

Will follow me

ALL the days of my life

And I will dwell

In the HOUSE of the Lord  forever”                                                              Psalm 23:6

“My sheep

LISTEN to my voice

I know them

And they FOLLOW me

I give them ETERNAL LIFE

And they

Shall never perish

No one will

Snatch them out of my hand”                                                                 John 10:27-28

Joseph willingly

EMBRACED GOD'S PLAN

By doing so-he ended up

PARTNERSHIPING with God

To bring SALVATION to the world

EMBRACE GOD'S PLAN for your life

Who knows where

God will take you?

Dear Lord-LET IT BE!

Robert P. Wallman

3-18-16 and 5-21-2022

Ps    INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.