Good day;
I woke up early this morning with what seemed to be an unanswerable question rolling through the cobwebs of my mind. “Ok God, what’s your plan?” Maybe it was not so much a question as it was a statement or demand. “OK GOD, WHAT’S YOU PLAN!!!”
The last few weeks have been a blur of activity, scrambling, planning, decision making, praying (I know this should have been first, oh well) executing and firefighting. Just when things seem to be falling into some kind of manageable routine, chaos breaks out again. To be perfectly honest, I don’t handle chaos very well. I like routine, well thought out plans and decision making. I don’t like on-the-run-decision-making that usually results in in short term successes and long-term consequences. I like to know the plan. Kay knows when things get out of whack, I tend to “stew” until I can get things worked out with God and myself am able to see, at least dimly, how things are going to fall into place. So, “OK GOD, WHAT’S YOUR PLAN?”
I have to remind myself during this time of uncertainty, this time of chaos, this of not being able to plan more than a week or two out that God is in control. But I still want to know THE PLAN! “Don’t leave me in the dark, God. Make it apparent what you are doing.” OOPS, I think I am asking God to clear things with me before He acts!” I may be in “Jesus is my co-pilot” mode when I should be in “Jesus in my pilot and ultimate guide mode.”
My heart and mind are led to the scriptures this morning:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6: 25ff)
“Ok, God, it’s in your hands. I know that. I trust you will set a plan and direction if I trust in you and that will have to be sufficient.”
P.S. “Couldn’t you give just a little sneak preview into what you are going to do? I promise not to get in the wat, much! Just askin’.
Have a great week.
Rev. J. Pete Hyde, Senior Pastor
Santa Rosa Beach Community Church
850-267-2599; srbcc.com