“The horse is made ready for the day of the battle but victory rests with the Lord” - Prov 21:31 (NIV)
There is a military and management saying that all plans fall into disarray at the sound of the first shot. Of course this does not prevent good soldiers or managers planning because no one has an idea of the outcome. The best soldiers and managers are meticulous at planning to the exception. But all good soldiers and managers also know that many plans do end up on the drawing boards. Environments in which they operate are always changing, leading to new alternative course of action.
Believers are no different. Like good soldiers and managers they too must plan. Like say a believer going for a long journey. It is wise to plan to carry enough money, say for emergencies. For example, booking ahead for accommodation is only smart. Sometimes one can get to a place with all boarding rooms taken up. Planning ahead does not mean lack of faith but just using the wisdom from God.
Plan you may; but it is only wise to commit one’s plan to the Lord. By committing all of our plans to the Lord it means having done our part everything else belongs to Him.
Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, today I commit to you all my plans that you guide them to success
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19/04/2024 - 20/04/2024 All day“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” ( Isaiah 43:19).
Just before fire was unleashed down on Sodom and Gommorah, Lot was told to pack up with his wife and two daughters and leave their homestead. Now, once out of danger, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” ( Gen 19:26). Perhaps here we might pause and ask why she was bothered to look back.
Of course it could have been that old “curiosity killed a cat” mistake! Yet, it could also have been Lot’s wife was not sure where she was going and longed for her old life back. This is a common error. There was nothing stirring to look back. Just before Lot’s neighbors had attacked his house eager to rape his visitors. “They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” ( vv 5). Was there anything worth looking back to!
The case of Lot’s wife could be anyone else’s experience. The Lord has plucked you out of some mess. You have been delivered to a new life. Yet, somehow you decide to look back, as though there was anything good and worth longing for. Sometimes it is a bitter past you have been delivered from. Other than rejoice in your new blessings you keep being drawn back!
A wise caution goes, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly” ( Proverbs 26:11). If the Lord has just led you out of a certain mess why look back like it was much better! Instead look ahead, for “he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past” ( vv 17- 18).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you for delivering me from the darkness of the past and I look forward to a bright new future in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
