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Plans of hope

Hannah Parsons tells how God’s promises bring peace when plans fall through...

God gives us an amazing hope for life even when we go through difficult circumstances. As many people who may know me or my family will know, I was due to get married this summer, but sometimes in life things don’t go the way we plan them. I didn’t get married and the way I’d planned my life had an abrupt change to it. But amazingly I have come through this experience with God’s help.

Although only a few months down the line things are still difficult for me, I have a sense of peace and calm because I know God is in control and has a plan for each and every one of us, including me. It says in the bible in Jeremiah 29 v 11: "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

It can be very difficult to understand when something bad happens to us how God can allow that, when He says that He has good plans for us not evil ones. But I know that God has better plans for me than the ones I tried to plan myself, because He made that promise to me in this bible verse, and God doesn’t lie.

Sometimes in life when going through difficult times we come out the other side as a stronger person. But it is always good to have encouragement from other people and that’s what I have received here at Kings, as well as from my family. If you are going through a difficult time ask a Christian you can confide in to pray with you. If you don’t know a Christian then try coming along to a church. That may be a scary thing to do, but receiving God’s love and healing in your life will help you to know that He has given you hope too.

Hannah

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope." Winston Churchill

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." Ovid

The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His steadfast love. Psalm 147:11

 

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