Greetings Dear Reader,
It seems odd for me to write about this but it is also
something bout which I must think. Until
you buy enough of my books for me to only write for my income, I work as a
project manager. I spend my time at my sustenance
job planning things in great detail for many people.
The truth I have learned in doing this for a few years is
that every plan has a defined critical path and that my plan needs to change the
moment I submit it. No matter how
carefully I plan and how hard others work to execute a plan, there are
variables. Still, it seems that we live
in a world that insists we must plan or we fail.
At the core of this is something that Jesus did say. He was speaking to a Pharisee named
Nicodemus. Jesus is explaining the
necessity of being born spiritually. He
says, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not
know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of
the Spirit.”
I would like to see that project plan for the wind. No human would comprehend how it flowed. Yet the Father directs the courses of the wind. I guess the point I am trying to apply is
that plans are good but the Father already has them for us. Jesus never tells us to plan everything
out. He insists that we follow him and
let his plan carry us along.
Jesus never tells us to plan it all. We are not to become so embroiled in
schedules and events that we neglect the truth that it is not our plan it is
his. If I worry
when I cannot plan and when my plans get derailed, I have made my plans an
idol. What I am trying to do is make
sure that my plans are always subject to the leading of the Spirit.
The only way I have found that works is to make plans that I
think are good. Then, I must live in the
moment, seeking Christ and his love. When
we realize that our plans supersede this, we are worshiping the plan and not
the planner. I am being borne by it and
not living as if I am born of the Spirit.
I think that we can become people who only seek to live out the ideal of
the kingdom.
We can learn to do as Jesus says at the end of the Sermon on
the Mount. After telling us not to worry
about food, housing, income, and clothing, he assures us that all this will be
provided if we follow him. Then, his conclusion
is to seek the Kingdom of God and God’s righteousness. He promises that if we do that, all that he
has discussed in his discourse will be provided for us.
I must plan in a practical way but I must make all my plans
subject to what Jesus did say. Success
is never attached to my proposals as planned.
It is attached to my faith and following. I do not use the King James translation much
because it does not reconcile with our current English well. In it, however, the word “success” only
appears once, Dear Reader. It is the
beginning of the Father’s instructions to Joshua: “This Book of the Law shall
not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and
night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For
then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
It is not planning or success that gets us home. I mentioned earlier in this series that Jesus
never said we had to make it on our own.
He promised to always be with us.
That same promise accompanies the promise of success to Joshua: “Have I
not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be
dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever
you go.”
I wish that I always thought this way. I am renewing my mind to do so as best as I
can. Your company in the journey makes
me wish to do so even more. My desire is
to seek Christ in every moment and follow him.
When you are in those moments as well, the journey is rich and we can
hear more clearly what Jesus says. That
is a plan with which I can live.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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