Fail to plan, plan to fail!

Have you ever heard the saying “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”?  There have been so many times I have made plans and they didn’t happen.  Or sometimes didn’t make any plans and something took up my entire day.  I have made plans for my life that I thought for sure would be the best thing for me.  I mean why wouldn’t I know what is best for myself, right?  So I proceed down that path that I so carefully laid expecting some pretty awesome things.  It starts out pretty cool.  The sights are beautiful and new.  I take my time and enjoy looking at the scenery.  I quickly decide that yes I made the right plans!  Then I come across trees that fell on my path, so I have to climb over.  Next a bump then a hole.  Then I come to a bridge and all of a sudden it crumbles and there is no way across to the other side.  What started out as what was a “perfect” plan had come to a complete halt.  Now what do I do?  My life has no forward momentum.  Has this ever happened to you?  You get to a point where you have no clue what to do now because you didn’t plan to have this happen.  I think everyone at one point or time in their life has laid plans only to have them crumble. 

Now I know we Christians NEVER do anything like that.  I know you would never move out on your own and plan something without God!  So I should just stop writing right now!  I think however we as Christians sometimes do it more than we think.  I think we have the intentions of following the plan God has for us but then somewhere along the line we began to rewrite them.  We don’t really notice it right away and only until we have really messed things up do we see that we changed them.  So then it is our responsibility to cry out to God and ask Him to correct us and guide us.  “I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course. So correct me, LORD, but please be gentle. Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.”  ~ Jeremiah 10:23&24 (NLT)  Your life is not your own my friend.  Your life belongs to God and if we would totally trust that, I think we would remember that He knows what is best for us.  We may not think that it is BUT sometimes it doesn't matter what we think.  When the times do come that we decide that we are going to write our own map, humble yourself to ask your God for correction and guidance.  My challenge this week . . . Do you need to stop thinking you know what is better?  Or maybe you are at that crumbled bridge and you need to cry out to God and ask Him for a gentle correction.  He loves you and all He asks is you TRUST Him!  Ask Him to show you and guide you in each and every situation you may face.  Don’t think you have a better way of dealing with it because I can guarantee that He has a better way.