You Say You Have Plans?

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:9

Most corporate training groups will tell you that failing to plan is the same as planning to fail. Indeed, planning, while it may take time away from what you feel the task actually is, ultimately makes the effort simpler and more efficient. Planners ask three basic questions: Where am I now? Where do I want to go? What steps will I take to get there? By contrast, a quote attributed to comedian and filmmaker, Woody Allen, says, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” 

Another perspective comes from film actor Joseph Fiennes, who, when discussing the World War II movie Enemy at the Gate, made a reference to Russian soldiers in the fight against Germany when he said, “The very fact that these people had a life expectancy of only four days makes you start to think about the whole idea of fate” (or of plans)!

For every tomorrow that God has ordained for you, He has a plan. He may allow you to muddle along in your own plans for a time. However, if you are close to Him and seek His direction, He will guide you. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you” (Psalm 32:8).

As government officials make plans and legislate the nation’s future, pray that among them there will be men and women of God who will seek His will for the nation, then act accordingly. God does have a plan and it will not be thwarted (Job 42:2).