Read the transcript from today's video devotional.
So did you have a plan for today? I'm sure you did. Most of us have a plan every single day. We know exactly what we want to have happen. We've structured it out. We've planned it out. And does any day really go exactly the way we planned it? Now, usually something comes up, doesn't it?
It's even more difficult when it's somebody that seems to get in the way, or change dynamics or change plans that you were not planning on, and it changes what you have the ability to do. And it's difficult when that seems to happen consistently. I'll tell you what. I had a plan even for my entire life, and God has taught me over time He had a very different plan. It didn't go at all like I thought it was going to be. And that's the beauty of the verse that we have for today.
It's in Psalm chapter 138, verse 8, and it says, "The Lord will work out his plans for my life—for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don't abandon me, for you made me." Boy, I love that cry from the psalmist. But when we think about when we make plans for our life, or we make plans for our day, and someone just keeps getting in the way and they make it very clear they want their plans to override yours.
Imagine this cry in this prayer to the Lord: "Lord, have your plans work out perfectly in my life." It's like, wait a second. I have my own plans. I have my own goals for my life. I have my own agenda. There are success metrics that I have in my life that I need to be able to accomplish. But when we're talking about the Lord's plans for our life, it's like, okay, well, Lord, what does that look like first?
Imagine, just like when we have plans and other people start getting in the way. Imagine when God has created you and has a beautiful plan for your life. And boy, we keep taking the reins from Him and saying, "No, Lord, I got it." If you're anything like me, all of a sudden I find myself in the ditch of life and God lovingly is sitting there and I hand the reins back over to Him, and He says, "Thank you, David. I'll take it from here." He gets us back on course, and I tend to go through that over and over again. He's so loving. He's so patient.
But when it comes to His plan, that's what I love about the second part of this verse, when it says, "for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever." The plans that He has made for you is backed by His enduring, faithful, forever love that He has for you—that love that drove His Son to the cross for you. Those are the plans that He has for you. He values you so much. He loves you so much that His plan is only with you in mind for today.
So let's do something. Instead of navigating today looking at it through the lens of "Boy, is everything going the way I had planned?" Let's do something different. As your plans don't happen for today, let's take some time and actually look at how His plans are unfolding in your life. How is His presence being revealed in those moments where our plan isn't happening?
When I have changed that perspective on my plans for today, oh my goodness, it's been so incredible being able to see the presence of God in the midst of it and Him reminding me, although my plans for today aren't happening, His plan is still in place and He's still at work, and His presence is even nearer during those moments than if my plans were unfolding exactly the way I thought they should be.
Be looking for His presence today. Capture those moments in the midst of your plans not coming to fruition, and see what God has for you today in the midst of it.
