Making Plans

Our IPhone calendars are full of plans.  We have our day mapped out, days planned for, weeks and even months out have entries. We are encouraged in business and church growth to have five and ten year plans and some have plans into the next generation. 

It all sounds so forward thinking and responsible to forecast and prepare for what you want, where you want and how you plan to get there with everything in place. Except that none of it may ever happen, despite all your plans: "Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord ’s purpose that prevails" (Prov 19:21).

I am not suggesting it is wrong to make plans and provisions, but I am saying it is a mistake to make plans without seeking direction from the Lord or considering His will for your life in the making if those plans.  

As James says, "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money .” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that" (Js 4:13-15).

While there are things we want and need in this life, this world is not to be our first priority nor our desire the top of our concerns. Rather, we are to "Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things [that we need] will be added as well " ( Matt 6:33).

Might I suggest that we make plans to follow God's lead and work to build His Kingdom as we live under the shadow of the cross while on this journey through life on planet Earth?   Jus' Askn.