What if...

Yesterday, while working through my Bible study by Beth Moore on the book of James she wrote this in the last paragraph of this particular day's study.  I have written it out to remind myself how different my life is and can be when I believe His Word is true and He really is who He says He is.

Jeremiah 29:11

"'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.' "

What if...

• ...we understood down to the marrow of our bones that His is the only plan that really ends up prospering us?
• ...we really believe Jesus when He said that those who insist on finding their own lives will lose them and those who lose them for His sake will find them?  Matthew 16:25
• ...we really believed that, if we seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, everthing else of true value would be gien to us, too?  Matthew 6:33
• ...we really believed that "He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything"?  Romans 8:32
• ...we really believed that "godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come"? 1 Tim. 4:8

What if....we really believed that God is not only great, He IS Good?