When Our Plans Fail…

“Our plans are not always God’s plans. … Often our plans fail that God’s plans for us may succeed.”

Help in Daily Living 12.1,2

How many of us are making a plan at the very moment? It could be about your education, starting a business, holiday, wedding, ministry, and other things. Undoubtedly, every single one of us has plans in life.

The next question will be:

Do we bring our plans into our prayers? If we do, do we say “Let Thy will be done” in our prayers?

If we do so, the next question is:

Will we be upset if God’s answer to our plans that we have prayed for is “no”? Will we be irritated and start to murmur because what happens does not according to what we have planned for?

My brothers and sisters, let us always remember the quote we have read in beginning that “often our plans fail that God’s plans for us may succeed.” “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

Jeremiah 29:11

If we feel that we are failing today, though we have prayed and done our best, remember that it is for our good.

When our future seems “dark” at the moment, keep praying and surrender all our plans and lives into His hands, because His plan is always the best and that we can always count on Him.

May this devotion can remind and strengthen us.

Good morning and God bless.