Plan It Out
We like to have life planned out. Whether it’s just having a plan for your daily routine, vacation, or retirement, we tend to feel better when everything is in place. Our plans don’t always work out the way we hope they would. We often don’t have control over our own situations. We can prepare all we want, but we can’t control the weather. Not only can weather work against us, but the economy, other people, and numerous other aspects of life can interfere. Just because we have a plan doesn’t mean it will work out. That’s why some people have a plan B (followed by C,D,E,and F as well). It’s good to have a backup. Other’s believe having a backup is just planning for failure. Surely failure, though undesirable, has to be considered as a possible outcome for proper preperation. Not planning for failure can be poor planning as well.
Plan B?
I’m not good at backup plans. I often “put all my eggs in one basket” as they say. Sometimes it feels like a faith issue, like God wants me to depend on Him to make this work, so planning for an alternative would seem wrong. Other times, I just don’t want to consider the fact that things might not play out my way. It’s important to distinguish between when we think God is leading us and when we are just pursuing our own path. God never has a plan B. It wasn’t like God saw Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit and was like ” uhm… what do I do now?!?” Nothing we do can surprise God.
The Original Plan
Some people would read through the Bible (or just hear about it perhaps) and assume that the cross was not God’s original plan. Throughout the Old Testament, we see what looks like God attempting to redeem man but to no avail. This is only because we fail to understand what we are reading. The Old Testament is, in part, the story of God showing us there is no other way. Salvation, once needed, would only come through the sacrificial blood of Christ. His work through the Old Testament was meant to prove to us just that. The cross was always plan A.
Like what you’ve read so far? Read more in the next post here.
Or, check out these inspiration quotes about planning here.