The Best Decorator in the World

"'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."  Jeremiah 29:11  He arranges our path and our future;  

You know how there are just some people who know how to fix up a room?  You walk into their homes and it's like .... I don't know, a decorating magazine?  A Pottery Barn store?  An episode from HGTV?  Every room you walk into looks perfect.

God is like that.  He arranges the rooms of our lives in a perfect way.  He lights our path.  He colors our dreams.  Everything He chooses is perfect.

He arranges our path and our future, just like He said in Jeremiah.  And everything He does is perfect.  And if that's true (and it must be, because Deuteronomy 32:4 says "He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just"), than everything He does for us must be perfect.

Once God has cleansed us, and swept the sin out of our lives, He starts to show us our path.  We can be scared, and want to run back to the way of life we used to know, or we can trust that this God - this perfect God, with the perfect plan - loves us enough to have a perfect life for us.

Not an easy life.  Not a fairy-tale life.  But a perfect life, that is perfect because it was created and is directed by Him.

Towards the end of his life, King David wrote in 2 Samuel 23:3-5:

The God of Israel spoke,
       the Rock of Israel said to me:
       'When one rules over men in righteousness,
       when he rules in the fear of God,
  he is like the light of morning at sunrise
       on a cloudless morning,
       like the brightness after rain
       that brings the grass from the earth.'
  "Is not my house right with God?
       Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant,
       arranged and secured in every part?
       Will he not bring to fruition my salvation
       and grant me my every desire?

He has made a covenant with you, arranging and securing every part of your life.  He secured it through the death of His son, Jesus Christ, and the redemption of His blood.  He loves you and wants you to have a perfect life - through Him.

So you CAN trust Him to arrange, decorate, and plan your future.  Because He is perfect, and His plans for you are perfect too.