Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way:
but the LORD directeth his steps.
We must make more room for margin. When we wring everything out, we often end up stressed out since something inevitably takes longer than we planned or something unforeseen springs up and spoils our plans. Since God's plans are superior to ours, it should not require a Herculean effort to delight in His interruptions instead of kicking against them.
We must plan, but we must not fail to plan for God's plans. There are few better ways to live a frustrated life than to live without margin. Organize every square inch without any room for wiggle and then live exasperated in all the inevitable wiggling. We need faith to plan and faith to roll with audibles. It is faithless to refuse to plan and it is faithless to refuse to change your plans. There will be planning, that much is inescapable. The question is whether or not your plans will account for God and whether or not having done so, you will count His interruptions superior or inferior to your instructions.
God have mercy on me, a well-organized, systematized sinner. May Your plan of salvation take fully into account my failed attempts to account for everything.
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