“I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” (Jer. 29:11).
The Lord’s thoughts toward His own are for their welfare and blessing and for their spiritual growth. He desires His best (though we may not see it so) for His redeemed ones, and He plans and works accordingly. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith 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.” “Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered,” and “the Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” “O Lord, how great are Thy works! and Thy thoughts are very deep.” He remembers us now, day by day, and will “give you an expected end.” “Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”
The Lord plans always for His own
With thoughts of love and grace,
Daily blessing and providing,
Until we see His face.
Isa. 55:8-9; Psa. 40:5; Isa. 14:24; Psa. 92:5; 73:24.