Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a
delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not
taken Him into account. We get ourselves into circumstances that were
not chosen by God, and suddenly we realize that we have been making our
plans without Him— that we have not even considered Him to be a vital,
living factor in the planning of our lives. And yet the only thing that
will keep us from even the possibility of worrying is to bring God in as
the greatest factor in all of our planning.
In spiritual issues it is customary for us to put God first, but we
tend to think that it is inappropriate and unnecessary to put Him first
in the practical, everyday issues of our lives. If we have the idea that
we have to put on our “spiritual face” before we can come near to God,
then we will never come near to Him. We must come as we are.
Don’t plan with a concern for evil in mind. Does God really mean for us to plan without taking the evil around us into account? “Love . . . thinks no evil” (1 Corinthians 13:4-5).
Love is not ignorant of the existence of evil, but it does not take it
into account as a factor in planning. When we were apart from God, we
did take evil into account, doing all of our planning with it in mind,
and we tried to reason out all of our work from its standpoint.
Don’t plan with a rainy day in mind. You cannot hoard things for a rainy day if you are truly trusting Christ. Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled . . .” (John 14:1). God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command— “Let not.
. . .” To do it, continually pick yourself up, even if you fall a
hundred and one times a day, until you get into the habit of putting God
first and planning with Him in mind.
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