MSP Airport, Minnesota
In my 10th grade English class, we read a book called Of Mice and Men; although this book is penned by Stienbeck, he gives a quote from Robert Burns, and one might say that this is an excellent outlook on life. "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." The best-laid plan is a quote meaning no matter how much you plan, odds are something will go wrong. As I write this, I am spending the night in the Minneapolis airport because of a canceled flight. While being the second time over this summer, I feel it would be a fair assumption to say that this quote is accurate with how plans work. You can have everything planned out to the T, having it all set up with no gaps and nothing unaccounted for, and somehow, something will fail. Maybe like in my situation, a flight was canceled, or you missed an interview, or the life you thought you would have didn't turn out the way you wanted. You could chalk all that up to the best-laid plans. But what if there's a different way of looking at it? Instead of saying well, something will go wrong, what if you thought that maybe God is doing something here. The wisest man ever is King Solomon; he wrote in Proverbs 16:9, "The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." He is saying that our sovereign God's plans will ultimately prevail. The Bible backs this up in other places, like Jer. 10:23, saying the Lord directs the man's steps. Sitting here, I realized that there are two ways to look at my situation; I can say well, this is just a failure in my plans, or God has a reason for doing this; maybe it's for protection, or maybe I'm supposed to be a catalyst in someone else's life. My question for you is, when the plans don't go your way, and things change, how will you look? Will you say maybe God has a plan in this, or will you chalk it up to failure? The choice is always yours on how you're going to live.
