Our planning dependson Your plan for us.

July 16, 2012

Proverbs 16:1   “The preparations of the heart is in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord .”

            We made our plans as we prepared to play the heavily favored team from Miami. We realized how much shorter than we they were but their outside shooting was a bomb. Miami would easily advance tonight and we would play them for the championship tomorrow morning. We chose not to watch the game; we knew enough about them that they could easily defeat us from every position but under the board. We worked hard to be able to check the shorter men from outside giving them a little freedom to drive or shoot. Defense was our key and our big guys concentrated on blocking out and covering man to man outside. We had an excellent game plan, were well practiced , and very confident to play at 11:00 the next morning .

            When we got to breakfast the next morning, the paper announced that the sharpshooting number one seed had lost the evening before to a much taller team . Our entire strategy was lost, our hope destroyed, and our loss guaranteed because we had made our plans based on our ideas rather than simply playing our game to our best and giving to God His will .

Lord, we love you today and realize that our planning may not count if we haven’t run it by You. No future plans we can make sure never exclude Your will. Help us, Lord, to realize just how dependent our future is on Your grace. Help us to depend solely on You for direction and insight, not on ourselves only. For your service we live.      Amen