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Millpond Ink Musing, 2015 – Of Plans
We plan to do this; we plan to do that. We think… Well, most of us do when we’re not behaving as a beast. Beasts react to their base desires, appetites, and feelings. They don’t think. This is where we see our brute creatureliness; not our Creator’s image.
Anyway, we plan. Sometimes, we do so thinkingly with prayer and meditation; applying good reason and purpose. Then, sometimes we plan based on a reaction, but our thinking may spring from a sinful emotional response: anger, jealousy, greed and yes, even hatred.
Usually, when those I love talk about their plans, I try to ignore them. I’ll listen, and if they sound reasonable, I will most definitely approve, but if reactionary? Plans are like the wind. They rush past and only a fool chases. I’m too old to find myself embroiled in reacting to ‘what might be,’ and most plans are as the wind. That’s not to say that I won’t pray for them. I do. I do and seek God’s will for them, and there I find peace.
I can say though that I plan to pray more. About what? “The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” Proverbs 16:1 What does this verse tell me? It’s what comes to fruition that is of the Lord, and that, according to His sovereign will. Plan all you want, but it is what God does to your heart; either softening or hardening it, that will incline you to do either this or that.
