Devotions

 

BEST LAID PLANS

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.   We preached from this passage in James 4 as we were going through our Summer Series.  Immediately after preaching it on a Sunday – people in our Church had to deal with some things that they never planned for or things they weren’t expecting. 

There is arrogance in making plans that don’t include God. We make airtight plans as if we have control over every detail of life.  But the reason we can’t make fixed plans is that, unlike God, we are dependent by nature.  God on the other hand is totally independent by nature. 

Now all that means is God does not need other things to happen in order for Him to do what He wants to do.  There are too many uncertainties and unknowns between now and tomorrow for me to say with confidence – this is what I’m going to do.  Making plans without god is like hacking through a jungle without a map or being at sea without a compass.  You will always wind up lost.  The best laid plans are the ones we make realizing God is in control.