What are your plans for today?
Are you willing to change them?
A man was hiking through the woods one day. He had decided it was a great day to walk down to an old pond he had frequented in his younger years. As he was walking, he crossed paths with another person. She suggested taking a different path. She told him she had lived in the area for decades, hiking the woods several times a week, and that she knew of a beautiful waterfall he could see if he took the other path.
What would you do?
Would you decide to stay on your current path or try the new one?
What if, instead of directing you to a waterfall, she had warned that the pond had mostly dried up and several venomous snakes had taken up residence there?
Would you change course?
Making Plans
We all make plans. We have things we want to accomplish and we make plans to be sure we accomplish them. In our passage for today, God has something to say about our planning.
Before we get to what God is saying, let’s clear up something He isn’t saying. Some people have used this passage to say we should never plan anything. We should just go with the spiritual flow if you will, and see what happens. That’s not what this telling us. First, notice that the conclusion is to say,