God Plans

You know what they say about the best laid plans...

...but they're wrong. 

Oh, they're right...in worldly terms. In terms of the things that we try to do for ourselves, that we try to work out, that we try to organize. 

I'll be honest with you: I am not an organizer. I don't know what it is, but I have the unique ability to get everyone all excited about something and then have everyone back out at the last minute. 

A few years ago, one of my neighbors mentioned to me that she was planning a garage sale and asked if I had anything I wanted to add. I told her that I had also been working my way toward a garage sale, so I would try to have my stuff ready by her date, and we could just have a double garage sale. A day or two later, I caught another neighbor out on the porch, and I told her we were having a garage sale in a couple of weeks if she was interested. She said she was also working toward a garage sale and had been planning one the week after that, but would love to try to do something if we were all doing it together. 

By the end of that first week, I had at least 5 neighbors on board for a single-date, street-wide garage sale. Someone was making signs. Someone else was going to run an ad in the paper. The long-term weather forecast looked good. 

We ended up having 3 separate garage sales on 3 separate dates with 2 families backing out altogether and just taking their stuff to charity. 

This is the story of my life when I'm the one trying to make plans. They just never come together. 

Thankfully, that's not true for everyone. And most thankfully, it's not true for God. 

What God plans to happen will happen (Daniel 11:36). 

Period. 

He plans it, and it will come to pass. He puts it in motion, and it will come through. If it's on God's calendar, you can mark it on yours because He knows what He's doing and since He works all things together, He knows how they're working, and it's set. It's a done deal. 

That doesn't mean it is coming in our time frame. That doesn't mean it's going to look exactly the way we want it to look. It doesn't mean we aren't speaking a whole different language sometimes than God is. But it means that if God has planned it, it is happening. If God has ordained it, it's on its way. If God has willed it, it's as good as truth for you. Might as well start living like it. 

And I love that. 

Because as often as my plans have fallen apart in this life, His promises never have. And I need that kind of confident assurance in my life.