Dear Young Christian:
Someone has wisely said,
“Make your plans with pencil so that
the Lord can rub them out and change them.”
This would be a good motto to keep in mind as you start another week. Often I have had my weekly plans disrupted and changed, and then looked back with thankfulness, realizing that His plans are really the very best.
King Solomon was a wise man, perhaps the wisest man who ever lived, apart from the Lord Jesus Himself. He wrote, “The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord” (Proverbs 16:33). This is a good lesson for us all to remember. It will help us not to be frustrated when things don’t go the way we had planned and hoped. It will also help us to accept whatever twists and turns and changes He allows this week.
Perhaps Solomon learned the lesson from his father David, who said, “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37:5)?
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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