Regardless of what you are tackling, it seems that it takes longer, is messier and costs more than you expected. The reason for this tri-fecta hammering is very simple - while we are in control of our planning, we are not in charge of our outcomes. Outcomes are impacted by plans and efforts but not determine by them. Perhaps you remember the old saying, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
That's not actually the original quote, by the way. The first reading by Robert Burns of Scottland in 1785 was, in part, "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft agley." The mesning in either case is that we are not in charge. We are given choices in life but we are not given control in life. The Psalmist wrote, "many are the plans in a peson's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails" (Prov 19:21). God, not man is in control.
Knowing your life is in God's hands, there are two very specific life truths: 1) Since you can't control it, you need not worry about it and 2) since God is controlling your circumstances, there is notihing to worry about as God is always good. "Cast you anxiety on him because he cares fo youkkk
The circumstances of life can be more than you can handle but it is not more than our Lord can handdles, For everyone born of God ovecomes the world. "This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4)..Jus' Ssying.
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