day no. 14,977: sovereignty is only an obstacle to those who fail to plan for it

Consequently, we must view chance not only as a threat but also as an opportunity which we must be ever ready to exploit.

Proverbs 16:98
The heart of man plans his way,
but the LORD establishes his steps.

A man must plan what he wants to do and how he plans to accomplish it. He must account for every foreseeable obstacle and arrange for every foreseeable opportunity to impose his will upon his surroundings. He must know what he wants to do, why he wants to do it, and how he wants to accomplish it.

Additionally, he must be ready, at any given moment, to throw his plans aside. He must do all the hard work of thinking through everything and then commit to the hard work of seeing all his plans abbreviated and edited by outliers and unforeseen, unpredictable, uncontrollable circumstances.

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The man of God must account for God's ability to superintend or upend all of his plans. But the man of God must still plan. He must take responsibility for the tasks and purposes to which his God has called him and execute the details with a ready willingness to re-acclimate to the atmosphere only God can control. 

This variable, the reality and sovereignty of God, must be accounted for as one plans and be seen, not as an interruption, but an opportunity. The enemy, not accounting for the reality of God, has nothing but their plans to depend upon. The strength of their campaign depends entirely upon their ability to account for every variable. But therein lies their downfall. Where they fail to take God into account, we make room, and find opportunity to disrupt their plans when the unplanned intervention of God overhauls everyone's plans.

Where our enemy finds exasperation, we discover exploitation. Their inability to foresee God's sovereignty is our opportunity to see the rate of their downfall accelerated.