I remember the day I boarded a plane to head off to college. My dream in hand, and my vision set. I had goals I desired to accomplish. I was idealistic and naive for sure because what I didn’t know was God’s plans and purposes for me were grander than I could ever know.

As I finished college and the years went by my posture changed from naive and idealistic to more practical and known. My posture went from upright, a bounce in my step to shoulders hunched over with broken expectations and hurt.

With a posture so defeated it took me years to find out that God had so much more in store. The plans and the purposes He’d had from the start did not go away when my posture declined.

His promises were waiting for me, I finally saw, as he opened my eyes for what seemed to me for the first time.

I sought him with all of my heart, and my posture changed once again. From one hunched over in defeat to face down to the ground humbled to see all that he promised coming to be.

His promises realized. He took my hand, and now I walk with my head up looking around for those hunched over in need of their posture is restored.

Jeremiah 29:11-14 ESV
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.”

Psalms 11:7 NKJV
“For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.”