Anticipating God’s Next Move

Today’s Just a Thought Begins With Joshua 3:5: Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”

The Anticipation of What God Will Do

When Jesus promises things, he fulfills such promises. Joshua did not know exactly what those things would be, and from reading the scripture we don't see anywhere that Joshua was trying to guess what God was going to do. He just trusted that whatever God was going to do, it would be amazing.In your life, God is saying, “Refrain from doing anything about your circumstance, but know that you are not to be afraid and that you can have peace and courage and joy, and know that I, your God, will do amazing things.” He will handle today and tomorrow and the next day in amazing ways — if you just let him.

Psalms 5:3

In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;

In the morning I lay my requests before youand wait expectantly.

Anticipating That God Will Provide

In reality, God knows what you need. Remember, he has a plan and wants us to join his plan — it’s not about him joining ours. He really does have a plan for our lives.

It's like a boss who comes in early or stays late working on a plan for his staff, or a coach for his team. The plan is designed to help everyone succeed or to win. A boss could say the same to his staff. “I have a plan for you, not to harm you but to prosper, to win to succeed.” But it’s God’s plan I am to join.Did Joshua lead a predictable, boring life following God’s plan? No way — it doesn't get any more exciting than to be in God’s plan.

His plan includes healing the sick, raising the dead, parting seas, sending fire from heaven and water from rocks. His plan today is helping others, restoring marriages, finding peace in the chaos, protecting his children from Satan's schemes, giving joy in the darkness, hope to the hopeless, purpose to the mundane, food for the hungry, compassion to the oppressed, a home for the lost, and watching lives be transformed for eternity.

When he says he will give us life to the fullest, he didn't mean in a worldly sense, for he knew what so many millionaires meant when they said that the pursuit of money and possessions was an empty pursuit, yet their greatest gain was when they served another person.Living life to the fullest is only met when it involves giving of ourselves. This is why Jesus said, “He who loses his life for me will find life.”

You want joy, so serve another person today. That is how simple life’s formula is.

Love God, love people. That is it.

A prayer for today:

Lord, as I go about my day I ask that you take the tasks before me given as a result of my job so that you can bring a person in need into my day so that I may serve them and share you with them by my words and deeds. I know your will and your overall plan, and while I don't know exactly how you will orchestrate the day, I do know that it will include either training of my character through trials, for you said this needs to be done in order that I may be complete, or so I can comfort another person by serving them, or a combination of both.

The flow of life:

Training, then implementation; training, then implementation …

The purpose of life:

Love God and love people.

The outcome of life:

Live life on earth to the fullest, with a heart filled with the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Live life into eternity in the presence of God in a realm of unspeakable joy forever.

Just a thought …

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