The Best Laid Plans

Man plans, God laughs – Yiddish proverb

We think we know what is going to happen. We forecast the weather, make our preseason picks, predict the next big blockbuster, start counting the money that that hot stock is going to bring us.

However, we are not that great at it.

Go look at old draft forecasts or an article from a few years back on the next big things and you will see what everyone thought was it, didn’t turn out that way. Sure, we might get some things right but more so we get maybe a bit above random chance. Yet it still doesn’t keep us from thinking we know what will be

In James 4:13-14 we read “Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit. Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”

It is hard to see the curve of the future because we haven’t been around long enough to learn the bend. Instead of relying on our own very limited viewpoint, we have been much wiser to trust God who has literally seen it all. I’m amazed how the new generation always thinks they have figured it all out, just like the people before them and the people before them did. They didn’t and neither do we. But God knows the full past and sees the coming future.

Rather than think we know, let trust the one that does.

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