What is your plan for tomorrow? “Tomorrow, I will go to work if the weather permits.” “Tomorrow, I will go to school if the weather permits.”
What are your plans for next week?
“I made plans to visit my aunt and her family back in my country.”
What are your plans for next month?
“Next month, I plan to make the first payment on my new home/car.”
What are your plans for next year?
“Next year, I plan to start a healthy diet, hoping to lose some pounds.”
Do you see anything wrong with making plans?
I am sure your answer was no! Let me rephrase the question: Do you see anything wrong with making plans without including the God of the Bible? Before you answer, take a look at this Bible passage:
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
(James 4:13-15)
Now, what is your answer? Did it change?
I am sure this will take a lot of getting used to. We have taken our freedom for granted for so long that, often, we are not careful. We just make our plans, not realizing we are just a vapor that the Bible talks about.
Let us not pretend that we are self-sufficient. Let us acknowledge that without God’s love, grace, and mercy, we are nothing!
Let us humble ourselves and fix this great mistake we have committed so many times.
If the Lord wills, the next post will be available for tomorrow.
May the God of the Bible bless you!
Bishop Bira Joshua
