What are your plans?

My vacation is coming so Paige, the kids, and I are preparing for our time of enjoyment, with no worries or concerns, just enjoying our time together. I love vacations and this is the first time in my life I am taking a couple of weeks in a row.

I am a planner by nature. I like to plan things out in my head but when vacation comes, I plan some things but for the most part the big plan is always do whatever it takes to simply relax, chill out, and enjoy these precious moments with my family. It doesn’t sound like a plan but it is.

What are your plans with God! I just heard a loud, “What?” Yes, we make plans with God, in reality we are following His plan but if we do it right it is not work or struggle just God moving through are lives with a natural, “super natural”, flow.

“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Acknowledge Him in all of your ways and He will make your path straight.”
Psalm 37:4,5

God has placed those desires in our hearts. We desire to excel. We desire to do well for our families. We desire to accomplish great things with our talents. We desire to see the dreams on our hearts fulfilled. Guess what, God places those desire and dreams there. We are made by God with a purpose in mind. Our purpose brings great joy and fulfillment to each one of us. By “delighting ourselves in the Lord”, we fulfill our purpose and find the joy we long for.

So go ahead and make plans. God will direct them, the desires you have He has placed in you so by planning you are fulfilling His pans for your life.

All of this is really dependent on two main assumptions. 1) You are a Christian by word and deed. 2) You are spending time each day with the Lord through prayer and reading His Word. Jesus said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. Relationship is built on actions not just words. It is very easy to get fleshly desires and God ordered desires confused. Our flesh wants what it wants and God is constantly drawing us to himself and the things that will bring us true joy not some cheap imitation. Sin, in most cases, is a cheap, costly, painful imitation of the great plan God has for us.

God says, “The plans that I have for you are for a hope and a future, plans for your welfare and not for your destruction” Jeremiah 29:11. Why do we end up in so much pain and or confusion? We have a lack in our relationship. God already has a plan and it is good. God already has a plan that will bring us great joy. If the relationship is not there, even though God has these great plans for us we can miss them due to our lacking relationship.

Take a few moments to reorganize your life. Recognize that the confusion and/or pain you are in, does not come from God. Start spending time with Him and you will naturally begin fulfilling you joy and His plan, the plan you were created to fulfill.

Again I ask, what are your plans? They can be great if the relationship is there. So what are you waiting for? At least make a plan to read the Bible a little today and to spend at least a few moments in prayer.