This time of year, the gyms are full, fridges are stocked on clean foods, and hopes are high. Everyone is set on a new resolution and plan of action for the New Year, usually with hopes of improving in some form or fashion. My goal is to ultimately read more, a habit I have been slowly working on building up over the last few years, but I want to be extra diligent this year. Yet we are only two weeks into the year, and I am reading a bit more but not near my planned commitment. I’m sure many of you are in the same boat, still rolling along with a plan but it is slowly fading into something less than envisioned. Honestly, this is nothing new, we all know this about our plans, they tend to go in a different direction than we had originally mapped out. So often we apply this same logic to our Lord, making plans that fit our desires around his, working the two out together.
We often will try to put plan a perfect concoction of our desires and goals alongside
what God has called us to do or is calling us to do. We’ll rush into to Church to rush out, maybe family is in town or there is PYB practice later. Or maybe we will spend time in the Word but not make the time to pray, after all work starts at 8 am and the kids need to be in bed by 8pm, where is the time? I am as guilty as anyone, becoming a father has changed my entire routine, as it should. I didn’t plan or think it would end up this way, and I believe most people feel the same way, but slowly our plans change.
Proverbs 16 starts by declaring “The plans of the heart belong to man”, our desires
come from a broken, sinful heart that does not belong to the Lord’s. While it doesn’t make all our actions, desires, or thoughts sinful, it does let sin creep in every so often. What was once a good and God honoring resolution to eat cleaner, be faithful to the Word, exercise more, or the desire to play basketball, spend time with family, etc., has begun to change into something it wasn’t. Here’s the truth our desires will lead us down a path that changes constantly, there is no stability within out sinful hearts. Our plans that come from our hearts and desires are bound to change, because there is only one constant – sin.
Here’s the good news, like I said earlier we tend to think or behave as if God’s plans
and desires unravel just like ours – they don’t. Proverbs 16 goes on to say in verse 9 that “the
heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps”, God is leading the way for his
plan. He has no sin to derail him, his thoughts, feelings, and desires remain a constant – they do not change. As the new year begins, I encourage you to make sure your plans are aligned with the Lord, and if they’ve already gone wayside, look to him to correct course. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established”, his plan knows no fail and no change.
-Slade
We often will try to put plan a perfect concoction of our desires and goals alongside
what God has called us to do or is calling us to do. We’ll rush into to Church to rush out, maybe family is in town or there is PYB practice later. Or maybe we will spend time in the Word but not make the time to pray, after all work starts at 8 am and the kids need to be in bed by 8pm, where is the time? I am as guilty as anyone, becoming a father has changed my entire routine, as it should. I didn’t plan or think it would end up this way, and I believe most people feel the same way, but slowly our plans change.
Proverbs 16 starts by declaring “The plans of the heart belong to man”, our desires
come from a broken, sinful heart that does not belong to the Lord’s. While it doesn’t make all our actions, desires, or thoughts sinful, it does let sin creep in every so often. What was once a good and God honoring resolution to eat cleaner, be faithful to the Word, exercise more, or the desire to play basketball, spend time with family, etc., has begun to change into something it wasn’t. Here’s the truth our desires will lead us down a path that changes constantly, there is no stability within out sinful hearts. Our plans that come from our hearts and desires are bound to change, because there is only one constant – sin.
Here’s the good news, like I said earlier we tend to think or behave as if God’s plans
and desires unravel just like ours – they don’t. Proverbs 16 goes on to say in verse 9 that “the
heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps”, God is leading the way for his
plan. He has no sin to derail him, his thoughts, feelings, and desires remain a constant – they do not change. As the new year begins, I encourage you to make sure your plans are aligned with the Lord, and if they’ve already gone wayside, look to him to correct course. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established”, his plan knows no fail and no change.
-Slade
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