The Lord's Purpose Prevails

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This morning I posted at Out of the Ordinary on my plans and God’s plan.

[M]y plan is different than God’s plan in so many ways that they’re not really comparable. While I tried to be wise when I planned, some of the choices I made may be foolish in hindsight. God, on the other hand, has perfect wisdom, so from the start, his plan was perfect for accomplishing his purposes.

What’s more, everything in my plan depends on things I can’t know for sure, and things I don’t control, so my plan will undoubtedly change as the day progresses. But God controls everything and knows everything, so nothing can foil his plan. His plan never changes because he knows how to arrange the chain of causes and effects to accomplish his purposes, and he has the power to bring all the causes and effects into existence.

Read the whole piece: God Had a Plan.

Theological Term of the Week

warning passages (of Hebrews)
Five passages interspersed throughout the New Testament book of Hebrews exhorting professing believers to remain faithful by warning of the consequences of apostacy.1

• From scripture, one of the warning passages:

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. (Hebrews 6:4-8 ESV)

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Heidelberg Catechism

Question 28. What advantage is it to us to know that God has created all things, and by his providence continues to uphold them?

Answer: We can be patient in adversity, (a) thankful in prosperity, (b) and in every circumstance that befalls us, we can place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father, (c) knowing that nothing shall separate us from his love; (d) since all creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they cannot so much as move.(e)

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