Hello Everyone,
Today I want to talk about plans. How many of you have them? We all do. We have plans for lunch, tonight, this weekend, next week and many of us have long term plans for our life. If you are young you may have your plan for high school or college or even younger parts of your life. How many of you who are either in your first year of college or below feel pressure to come up with your plan for your life as a teenager? Well, it's been a few years since I was a teenager but I remember feeling that same pressure growing up.
I need a plan for certain parts of my life now. As some of you know, I got married again in late March. We have five kids between us and we need a bigger house. So we made a plan. We looked at a piece of land in a really neat part of town and we started working on our plan. But some things came up and we are not sure if we will be able to do this or not. So my wife said we really need a plan about where we will all live now and she is very right. I remember sitting for a couple of days worrying about what our plan should be. I looked at many different scenarios and tried many different ways to make things go the way we wanted them to go.
At the end of all this worrying, I came to a very interesting conclusion - I didn't have a plan that would work and I couldn't figure out how to make any of my plans successful. Guess what? That's a very good place to be. As a matter of fact that is a great place to be. No, I am not crazy. I finally got smart. Why is this such a good place? Because instead of working on my plan, I finally decided that I needed to ask God what his plan is for our house. Did you know that the Bible says in the book of Jeremiah that God knows the plans he has for your life? It also says his plan is a good plan for your life. Want chapter and verse? Well I won't give it to you - look it up!
See, I was working extremely hard on my plan and the way I thought things should go. But notice what the verse doesn't say. It doesn't say, "I, the Lord God, know that you have the perfect plan for your own life and I will bless any plan you want for you life." That sounds nice and I think we all wish that God would do that sometimes but He doesn't. All that time I was working on my plans and God was sitting patiently on the sidelines of my life watching me run myself ragged. I can see Him sigh as if to say, "I have a plan but I can't help you until you ask me." I can see something in His face. It's almost like He's bored. He's not the least bit worried because He has a plan. Guess what, His plan is blessed. It will work and it will be the best possible house for my family. He's not in a panic. He knows exactly what to do.
We finally humbled ourselves and said, "Lord, we don't know what we need to do here but You do. We are expecting your plan to work for our situation." You know what happened to me? All the weight of the whole thing was lifted off my shoulders and He started carrying it. I am literally at peace with His plan and I don't even know what it is! That's why He tells us that his burden is easy and his yolk is light because when we put His burden on correctly, He does all the carrying.
So let me ask you - Are you currently facing a situation where you don't know what to do? Are you frustrated or in a panic? Well instead of running around trying to make your plan work, why don't you just ask God what His plan is for your situation and let Him show you the perfect plan!
That's another Opinion of the Minion
Today I want to talk about plans. How many of you have them? We all do. We have plans for lunch, tonight, this weekend, next week and many of us have long term plans for our life. If you are young you may have your plan for high school or college or even younger parts of your life. How many of you who are either in your first year of college or below feel pressure to come up with your plan for your life as a teenager? Well, it's been a few years since I was a teenager but I remember feeling that same pressure growing up.
I need a plan for certain parts of my life now. As some of you know, I got married again in late March. We have five kids between us and we need a bigger house. So we made a plan. We looked at a piece of land in a really neat part of town and we started working on our plan. But some things came up and we are not sure if we will be able to do this or not. So my wife said we really need a plan about where we will all live now and she is very right. I remember sitting for a couple of days worrying about what our plan should be. I looked at many different scenarios and tried many different ways to make things go the way we wanted them to go.
At the end of all this worrying, I came to a very interesting conclusion - I didn't have a plan that would work and I couldn't figure out how to make any of my plans successful. Guess what? That's a very good place to be. As a matter of fact that is a great place to be. No, I am not crazy. I finally got smart. Why is this such a good place? Because instead of working on my plan, I finally decided that I needed to ask God what his plan is for our house. Did you know that the Bible says in the book of Jeremiah that God knows the plans he has for your life? It also says his plan is a good plan for your life. Want chapter and verse? Well I won't give it to you - look it up!
See, I was working extremely hard on my plan and the way I thought things should go. But notice what the verse doesn't say. It doesn't say, "I, the Lord God, know that you have the perfect plan for your own life and I will bless any plan you want for you life." That sounds nice and I think we all wish that God would do that sometimes but He doesn't. All that time I was working on my plans and God was sitting patiently on the sidelines of my life watching me run myself ragged. I can see Him sigh as if to say, "I have a plan but I can't help you until you ask me." I can see something in His face. It's almost like He's bored. He's not the least bit worried because He has a plan. Guess what, His plan is blessed. It will work and it will be the best possible house for my family. He's not in a panic. He knows exactly what to do.
We finally humbled ourselves and said, "Lord, we don't know what we need to do here but You do. We are expecting your plan to work for our situation." You know what happened to me? All the weight of the whole thing was lifted off my shoulders and He started carrying it. I am literally at peace with His plan and I don't even know what it is! That's why He tells us that his burden is easy and his yolk is light because when we put His burden on correctly, He does all the carrying.
So let me ask you - Are you currently facing a situation where you don't know what to do? Are you frustrated or in a panic? Well instead of running around trying to make your plan work, why don't you just ask God what His plan is for your situation and let Him show you the perfect plan!
That's another Opinion of the Minion
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