Plan; Realise!

Plan; Realise

There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. Proverbs 19:21 KJV

There seems to be 2 distinct parts to today's extract. First, there is a realistic expectation that man must plan. The world also says: 'to fail to plan is to plan to fail'. Even in spiritual matters, God also advises man to commit his plans to Him, so He can make his man's plans straight. Man has been given the nature of God by the breath of God in him, so He also has the ability to think up great plans. Sin has not been able to take away that ability, but what it has done is to introduce other dimensions into the planning process.

Man is now able to make grand plans that have no single input from God, or plans that simply go against God's express command. We sit and plot evil, without a thought to the consequences of our actions or God's opinion on the matter. And the heart is the seat of these devices, where no other man sees. All that man sees are the fruits of the seed planted in the heart. If God were to reveal the contents of my heart to every other person around me, would I hold on to those thoughts?

The second and more important part is that God's counsel and plan will ALWAYS prevail. Man will plan, but there is the invisible thread of divine power that rules and reigns in the affairs of men. No matter the source of your own plans, make it your most important consideration to know God's mind on the matter. Then your plans have divine approval and align with the divine plan. God is omnipotent and omniscient and if He has not ordained something, there is no power on earth that can birth or sustain it.

What joy this is: knowing that nothing can touch me without God's approval, and nothing about me catches Him by surprise. I can face the world with joy and hope, sure and certain that as long as I hold on to Him, everything about my life will work out to His glory. His time of favour is here.