Jeremiah 9:11-13, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” I am the type of person that has to understand things. As a teenager, I wasn’t satisfied when told “because I said so.” I needed the reason behind the instruction. It had to make sense to me. Maybe it was a lack of trust that made me want to know, if the instruction was for my own good or for the good of the person telling me. These verses let me know that when my trust is in God, His plans are always for my good. We are told throughout the Bible to not fear the unknown, that God is always with us. In Proverbs 3:5-6 God’s word tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” So many times, I have heard others try to make sense of the ways of God. What He can and cannot do. When we lean on our own understanding we aren’t searching for Him with all our hearts, but on what our minds can comprehend. It is foolishness when we try to make God, who created the heavens and the earth, fit into our own understanding. Our earthly minds get in the way. We begin to rely on what we see and stop believing in His might. “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” What a wonderful promise. I am always quickened in the Spirit when I hear others speak about what God can do according to their understanding. It saddens my heart, to hear others have so little expectations of Our Creator. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and you will see His wonders, you will believe there are no limits to what God can do. In Isaiah 55:8-9 it tells us, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” God declared His plans for our welfare, and His ways are not our ways. Please don’t limit God because you don’t understand His ways. But trust with all your heart that what He plans is always for your good and lean not on your own understanding.