Who’s In Charge?

“All a person’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs motives. Commit your activities to the Lord, and your plans will be established.”
Proverbs 16:2-3 CSB

Big plans? Think you have everything all figured out? Think you know how your life should go and what should happen next? Most of us are planners and maybe a bit of schemers. We like to think about what could be, what our lives might look like or maybe what we hope they could look like. We figure out an end result and then try to put the pieces together to make that happen. Thinking that way is not all bad; we need to make some plans, we need to have direction in our lives. If we just look at our plans from our point of view they all look good. But, as Christ followers we must take another point of view into consideration. Really we must do more than consider the other point of view; we must seek to establish and live out God’s desires for us.
Remember, when we decide to follow Jesus we are no longer our own master. We have a new master, we serve a new Lord. The Bible tells us that as followers of Jesus, “We have been bought with a price, we are not our own” (1Cor 6:19-20). We willingly have placed ourselves under God’s authority. What does that mean practically? It means that I now need to learn the heart and mind of Christ. I need to know what His will is and align my plans with His. How do I do that? First, I get to know Him by spending time reading His Word. Second, as I read his Word I allow my will and passions to be molded to become like His. Third, I begin to walk out His words daily. That sounds good, right? But, what keeps me on track ? The answer is not what, it is who. The Holy Spirit! The phase, “Commit your activities to the Lord,” does not just mean I make a plan and ask God to bless it. It means I take my plans to God and ask the Holy Spirit to change, direct and lead me in the way I should go with that plan for that day. As I ask for His direction I commit myself to follow wherever he leads, not my will but His.
Whose ways are you following? Have you committed your plans for today to God? Have you asked Him to lead you?

-Pastor Tim