God’s Plan Already Accounted for Your Worst Days

Sometimes we get in our own heads and dare to think that our mistakes catch God off guard. As if he is shocked whenever we fall. But the truth is, He knows. The when, the where, the how. And somehow, He weaves even our failures into His greater plan.

The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds in Matthew 13 paints the picture. A farmer plants good seed, but an enemy slips in weeds. The workers want to pull them up right away, but the farmer says, “No—let them grow together until the harvest.”

What?

I thought God would just want to rip anything that’s not good immediately, why would he let the weeds grow among the wheat?

Because in yanking out the weeds too soon, they might destroy the wheat.

God does the same with us. He sees the weeds which are the addictions, the failures, our shortcomings, but He also sees the wheat.

And in His mercy, He lets them grow side by side while He works on our hearts. He knows that sometimes the story isn’t ready to be finished yet.

I’m so thankful that we have saints like St. Mark Ji Tianxiang to illuminate a wonderful soft side of God’s heart. St. Mark was an opium addict for most of his life. He couldn’t shake it, even to the day he died as a martyr. But he never stopped pursuing God. And God never stopped pursuing him. His lifelong struggle didn’t disqualify him but it became the soil where faith and perseverance grew.

This doesn’t mean we give up the fight or stop working toward holiness. It means we don’t lose heart when the timeline isn’t what we expected. We trust that God is a loving, grace-filled, merciful Father. The kind of Father who sent His only Son to die for us, not because we cleaned ourselves up first, but because He loved us while we were still sinners.

So when the doubt creeps in, when you start to think you’ve gone too far or sinned too much just remember: God’s plan already accounted for your worst days. And His mercy is deeper still.

All we have to do is stay close, stay focused, and be patient with how He’s working in us.