I smiled when I read a devotional that my friend Malu sent me today because I thought to myself how I have ineffectively commuicated to her in regard to my thoughts about planning. She concerns herself so much with my tendency to not plan at this point in my life which is a complete turn-a-round to how I used to be. However she wasn’t around a few years ago when I was a planning fool. However even that “turn-around” has only to do with a season of my life.
I think that in each of our lives that God is working with us according to what ‘we’ need to be addressing. And I can see how I am being led to do more planning in recent weeks, we’ll see how that turns out. I think God will lead me to pick back up the outlines and the five year goals soon enough.
My faith says that for some of us it is the season to plan according to God’s will, and for others it is the season to submit to God’s plan for their lives. ,,, I happen to have gone through the latter for the last two years because of my “relying on myself” weakness that the Lord has had to deal with me on. Though the Lord has not yet finished in this area with me I believe that a great deal of progress has been made.
It is neither planning nor a lack of planning that is to be followed. But instead the Will of God which happens in the moment. Whether that moment is a moment of submission to the whims of the living Spirit of God to ‘act’ or the whims of the Spirit to “plan”.
… Let it be :-)
September 11, 2009 at 8:56 am |
I think that even when I wrote this a few years ago I was unduly influenced by “my friend’s” (my wife now) concerns about this; concerns about my “planning” for the future.
At the time I “knew” that it would be quite some time later before God would lead me back to the ranks of the kind of organization that I used to live under. God of course knew my weaknesses then just as He knows them now. He knows how I used “to live” by faith in what I could do instead of faith in what He could do. … Things like this are easier to see in hind site.
And now, over three years later, I’m just starting to get back into creating a calendar for myself, purchasing folders to help track all of the paperwork and documents I am beginning to collect again, and preparing things to begin an Internet Cafe business (among other things). I believe that this is what God is leading me to do.
If I compare what I was writing then with what I am writing now, it really seems that there ‘is’ a difference as I reflect inwardly and look upwards to God “in my spirit”. … But then again being influenced by those that are closest to me ‘is’ a weakness of mine. I can just do my best (hopefully God’s best) to live in regard to today only and pray that every moment of this day will be devoted to His plans, His dreams, and His goals. That He will be my Executive Director.