It has been said, "If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans." There are at least two good reasons for making that statement: 1) Our plans tend to be very small compared to his and 2) we are not in control of people and circumstances.
When God makes a plan, he has the power to alter circumstances and to move people to do precisely what he has in mind - we do not. We are dependent but God is sovereign. While God has "know the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come" (Isa 46:10), we "do not even know what will happen tomorrow" (Js 4:14).
We really can't know what the future will hold. So, to entrust the future into our own care seems obviously to be terribly shortsighted. While we can make plans, we need to entrust those plans to God and to the outcomes he determines for he is right in all his judgments and he has the power to bring them into being.
No knowing what the future holds is only unsettling to those who do not know the One who holds the future. For the child of God, there ought not be any fear of the future or concerns about how things will be worked out for, as in the words of the old spiritual, "He's got the whole world in his hands, he's got you and me brother in his hands..."
God's got this. Do you look to him or to self for what is to come? The practical answer is a simple one, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you as well" (Mt 6:33). All those things that we cannot ensure, God can. We need only ensure that we are seeking after him, placing our trust in him and leaving our future in his hands. Jus' Say'n
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