Discovering God's Plan

Discovering God’s Plan

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28

Many times we do not understand why things happen the way they do in certain situations. We make our plans in life and have our course plotted, but situations develop that lead us in a different path than what we had planned. I believe this is the intervention of God directing our paths, and leading us where He wants us to be. I can recall when I began to research our family history, and record information about my father and grandparents history, I found that they always read their Bibles on a daily basis. I began to discover some of the scriptures that they referred to and had marked in their Bibles. As I began reading the scriptures they had marked, I began to see that they had lived their lives based on these scriptures. Even though they have now been gone many years their memories have still not been forgotten in our community. People still talk about them every time we go back to visit our family, and the kind of people they were. They had built up a legacy that has followed them for many generations, and I became enamored with the thought that everyone should be remembered in this fashion. This led me to begin my own Bible study, and really was the start to my developing a closer relationship with Jesus. This is not something that I had planned, but my search for history about my ancestors was the beginning of my study of the Bible. God had intervened in my life through this simple research, and this has now become an obsession with me, resulting in my daily devotionals and publishing thirteen books all devoted to serving God. Proverbs 16:9 “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”
My Daily Devotional Volume III
January 16
Robert William Brock, Jr.