The Derailment of the "Plan" Train

Life is a process, a jouney, with lots of ups and downs and twists and turns. One second things are going great and then "BAM!!", life slams into us and completly derails our plans. It seems that no matter how much we do to prepare it's not nearly enough. And that's so true. We can only do so much to prepare ourselves for life and it's little surprises. We can plan every detail and check and double check but the only guarantee that we have is that it won't go according to plan.

Now I realize all this sounds really depressing. Like why should we plan anything if its all going to go wrong anyway. But just because our plans go awry it doesn't mean that planning is bad. Just the opposite is true. Planning is essential. It gives us something to look forward to, to hope for. As humans though we cling to what we think is the right path and forget that God has bigger plans for us. I like how The Message Bible translation puts Proverbs 29:18 "If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves;But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed."

Don't be so scared of change and uncertainty. Of surrendering all you know and understand. Don't be afraid to go off the beaten path. Like Robert Frost wrote:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

God's vision for us will more often than not be the road no one wants to take and sometimes that's hard to accept. But remember this, it will always be the one that makes us who we need to be, and better than we ourselves could have ever imagined.