Do your Plans include God?

Proverbs 21:30

“There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.”

It has been another morning, at 2:45 the eyes came open and the mind began to be filled with thoughts.  In a roundabout way, it was this verse that was not allowing sleep to come back after visiting the bathroom.  A young man who is my niece’s son just lost all his worldly stuff in a fire that killed one of his friends who was too drunk to know that the place was on fire.  Let me begin by saying I love this young man he is very special to me, but he is 22 and living a lifestyle that is not healthy.  When asked if I could help I prayed and asked the Father, then told my wife we could not support a person with that lifestyle.

Now you may not be a follower of Christ, and yet for some reason you are reading this and you also have an understanding that this fantastic world and solar system had to have a designer.  On that premise, we will call Him God or Lord for it is clear that we must be His creation, and I’m sure you would agree His ways are higher than ours, and so are His thoughts.  So does He want to have fellowship with His Creation, and if so how can the created communicate with our Creator?

We must begin at the beginning, and we find this in Scripture, the book of Genesis 2:7, “Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”  And Scripture gives this insight that the first Adam broke the only law God had given him when he was enticed by Satan.  And sin entered into man and has been passed down by man since that time.  But God who is all knowing had a plan to redeem man and He sent His one and only Son to pay our price.

On Monday morning I meet with Paul for coffee, prayer, and fellowship, and I was sharing what God had revealed to me earlier that morning.  We talked about how Adam was standing there by Eve as the serpent tempted her and was passive.  Paul is once again reading the book “Wild at Heart,” and he shared that John Eldredge gave this insight; on the day Adam sinned for the first time, his sin was choosing Eve over God.

Now you do recall we said His ways are higher than ours, and so are His thoughts, and it seems clear to me that you and I would have just wiped out man and started over, but the Bible states, God loved us too much to do that.  A very popular Scripture is found in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have eternal life.”  Many have seen this verse at “In & Out Burgers” or on a sign at a football game, it matters not the popularity of the verse, it is God telling mankind, I love you!  I’ve made a way to enter into fellowship and a relationship with you my creation, my premier design.  Now the ball is in your court, today is the day of Salvation, and this is the question that all must answer; what will I do with Jesus?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice