Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
How many times do we plan for thus and thus; we are sure of what’s best but things seem never work out the way we planned them. Things do work out, but differently, and on a different timetable. It can certainly lead to frustration when the best of our laid plans seem to be shelved in favor of another’s: God’s.
We calculate how we will carry out this or that but it seems that our shortsightedness leaves out much in view, which God sees. Our calculations do not always include many contingencies which the Almighty disposes but that we cannot foresee. Also, in God’s world, the shortest way from A to B is not always a straight shot.
The results and issues of any given plan are thus from God. In all our deliberations, we should give ourselves, and without self-confidence and arrogance, to the guidance of the Father. We should do our duty in our preliminary planning, but leave the rest, trust the executing of the purpose, to God with humility and confidence.
Oh, what peace is found once we have surrendered the futile exercise of control and domination. Oh, what joy is obtained when we’ve laid foremanship at the feet of the Chief Laborer.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
How many times do we plan for thus and thus; we are sure of what’s best but things seem never work out the way we planned them. Things do work out, but differently, and on a different timetable. It can certainly lead to frustration when the best of our laid plans seem to be shelved in favor of another’s: God’s.
We calculate how we will carry out this or that but it seems that our shortsightedness leaves out much in view, which God sees. Our calculations do not always include many contingencies which the Almighty disposes but that we cannot foresee. Also, in God’s world, the shortest way from A to B is not always a straight shot.
The results and issues of any given plan are thus from God. In all our deliberations, we should give ourselves, and without self-confidence and arrogance, to the guidance of the Father. We should do our duty in our preliminary planning, but leave the rest, trust the executing of the purpose, to God with humility and confidence.
Oh, what peace is found once we have surrendered the futile exercise of control and domination. Oh, what joy is obtained when we’ve laid foremanship at the feet of the Chief Laborer.
Oh, what joy is regained once we’ve yielded ourselves in the very Words of the Master and said: Not my will, but thine be done.
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