What the Bible Teaches About Life Hopes

[jennifer_bloom]

I had one dream 9 years ago where God said, the more success I wanted to attain to, the more humble I would have to be.

I had another dream 4 years ago where God said, the more that I sacrificed the better my future marriage would be.

The bible says that many are the plans in a man’s heart, but God decides your steps.

Like I have more dreams than you could imagine:

I want to be a professional artist

I want to be a professional author

I want to be a musician

I want to be a celebrity

I want to adopt children

I want to adopt dogs

I want to own my own bakery restaurant chain

I want to own my own farm and mom and pops grocery store

I want best female friends that I can go on day trips and road trips with

I want a husband with a gorgeous body and face and high loyalty and purity

The fact is: Life is time sensitive, goals require time and patience and effort and sacrifice, and God adds friction to our dreams so that not even billionaires like Bill Gates have everything that they want.

I also realized, if God does not give me what I desire, I should be grateful for the things He has already given me, that I have a home and a technologically adapted lifestyle and supportive connections and churches and schools nearby. And in the end, the pursuit of my dream is a reward in itself because it is an antidote to the dangers of not pursuing your dreams.

[Massageman]

Amen, JB.

As the old saying goes, "If you want to make God laugh, just tell Him that you have your life all planned out your way".

[Massageman]

Thanks for the MHO.

[marylou_h_]

This 🙌🙌 God bless you sis 🙏

[Miristheiss]

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety."

[ALewis30]

I understand what you are saying. But it's a lot easier said than done. The only people I have to relay on is my mother, sister, aunt and grandparents. Without them, I don't know what I do. My life seems to be one failure and disappoint after another. I can't seem to succeed in anything. Not in wealth, not in career goals, not in love or having a social life. Nothing. 😟

[lrina]

i don't believe in god, personally. i find him quite cruel and unreasonable how he is described in the bible though.