What Are Your Plans?

Today you will make hundreds of plans and decisions. They may be as small as what time to get up or as big as what job you want to do. The funny thing about making plans is that they don’t always work out the way you expected. Sometime we need to think about the unintentional coincidences which may occur when we put our plan into action.

 

A rowing team coach was once preparing his team for the Olympics. He decided to hire an expert in meditation to he his team improve their awareness, focus and timing. To some extent in worked. The team became more synchronised and their stroke became smoother. The down side was that as the team learnt more they actually went slower. The team were more focused on being in harmony than winning. When ever we have an idea or plan there is no guarantee that it will turn out exactly how we expect, especially if God has a different plan for us.   

 

I was emailed a picture the other day which reminded me of this. It was a photograph of a tree stump which had been obviously chewed through by a beaver. To the left of the stump lay the fallen tree. After looking at the photo for a few seconds I realised to my horror (and amusement) that the tree itself was laying on top of a beaver. It appears that the beaver had spent ages chewing through this tree but didn’t manage to get out of the way before it came down. Have you ever felt like your own plans have come crashing down around you?

 

I think the problem is that we have a natural instinct that tells us that we should always know better than anyone else. Its there right from childhood when we choose to ignore our parents telling us not to climb on the wall because we’ll end up hurting ourselves. Our instinct is always to do what we want when we should be looking to God for guidance. Our prayer in every situation should be ‘Let not my will but yours be done’ or in other words ‘tell me what to do and I’ll do it.

 

So this week why not try to let go of the plans we have and ask God what his plans for our future are.