My Plans are Not Greater than God’s

God only misses the mark when we define the mark for him. 

 

We can’t put God in a box. When our expectations aren’t met, it isn’t because God couldn’t meet them. It’s because we shouldn’t be making them in the first place.

 

I used to think that my proposal for life was better. I adapted my plans to my belief system, which had everything all mapped out. Each plan I made always had an end goal. I could see where to step next and how close that next step got me to my final destination.

 

Despite going my own way, my plan worked. I got the job. I had the income. I owned the apartment. All the pieces fit together until they didn’t.

 

As my plan began to unravel, I desperately tried to mend the frayed edges of the life I had picture-perfectly gotten right. After all, my hands and my work had brought me there. Surely I could re-attach the broken threads and secure the remaining pieces back to the life I had spent so long perfecting and stitching. My thoughts, actions, and decisions all agreed that my hands knew best.

 

But how could someone human like me know better than God? Despite how it appeared, my way was flawed and ever-changing. My thoughts and emotions were undependable. One day I would discover what seemed like a good idea; the next day, there would be a new proposition to take its place.

 

How could I believe in the sustainability of my arbitrary plans when I had a heavenly Father who already knew my plans before I thought to make them? How could I determine the steps of my future when my future has never been mine to determine in the first place?

 

God’s plans are immeasurably better when we decide to lay ours at His feet.

 

Our unedited drafts.

Our unfinished submissions.

Our terms and our conditions.

 

I’ve chosen to lay it all at the altar. My way is not the way, and the sooner I realize that God is the only counsel I should seek, the sooner I can seek his master plan for my life.

 

In Isaiah 55:8, the Lord says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways.”

 

When we say we know better than God, we shrink His significance. And when we shrink His significance, we hold our plans hostage from the freedom of God’s perfect goodness for our lives.

 

Furthermore, in Malachi 3:6, it is known that the Lord never changes. His everlasting way ultimately leads to everlasting life. For me, the choice was easy. Give up my personal control for the supreme sovereignty and perfect dominion of God’s original authorship over the plot of my story.

 

Whether your life is a tangled mess or just beginning to fray around the edges..  let the strings unravel. Allow the stitchwork to go. Forget the patterns designed by man. God’s design is the sole pattern you’ll ever need. 

 

The Creator’s hands are the only hands that should be in your life and on your heart. If you let him in on your plans, He won’t hesitate to show you the rest of the story.