Acknowledging God in our Plans

Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and we will spend one year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little while appears, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, even we will live, and we will do this or that; but now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil. (James 4:13-16, LITV)

"If the good Lord's willin' and the creek don't rise." That's a favorite saying of my dad when making plans. I suppose we'd all do well to add such a saying to our vocabularies. For, as the above Scripture indicates, it's vain to presume we have total control over what we will do.

Truly, it does us good to remember the One who can make things happen, and our acknowledgement of God to others reminds them of our faith.

When was the last time your plans didn't go the way you expected them to? What was your reaction? If you've read the latest BibleStoreBrowser.com blog about the plans of men and plans of God, consider how God may have been working behind the scenes in your change of plans.


(Interesting note: The origin of the saying above appears to be a reference to the Creek Nation of American Indians who would sometimes attack travellers on the road, but its meaning today is usually understood to be in reference to a creek.)