Within the Lines

Plans

I am b-i-i-i-g-g on planning.  My dear friend laughs when I announce some new plan I've created.  Sometimes, I think I am happier putting life in little boxes than actually living it.  Thus today's devotional from Elizabeth Elliot speaks volumes to me.  I hope it's meaningful to someone else today also.

Interrupted Plans

We like things to go smoothly and as planned. Very often unexpected things intervene, and our plans go awry. We think we've got "problems." There is another level at which everything that happens is being engineered. "God has no problems," Corrie ten Boom said, "only plans." When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) "toward the goal of true maturity" (Rom 12:2 JBP). Believe God. Turn the interruptions over to Him. He is at the controls.

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: A Lamp For My Feet
Scripture: Romans 12:2