"Victory Every Time"

"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:6

I woke up this morning with the oddest thought going through my mind. It is a line from a writing by Robert Burns- "The best laid plan of mice and men often go astray". Mr. Burns was a famer and one day while plowing up his field he ploughed up a mouse's nest. This prompted him to write the poem.

No matter who you are, or what you are, no matter how great you are, how little, how rich, poor, well educated, uneducated or how famous, when we make our own plans, they often get interrupted or come to failure.

We are not designed to make our own plans. Our plans are based on human wisdom (which in the Book of James we are told that it is sensual and devilish- James 3:15). When we make our own plans, they are destined for failure. Each time Israel made their own plans they failed. They planned to go to the city of Ai and destroy it. We know that did not happen. Why? They failed because they failed to acknowledge God and followed their own plans. Once they acknowledged Him though, and followed His directions, they destroyed the city. (There are many other stories, but we don't have time to talk about them.)

The bottom line is this: God has a plan for you and me. As long as we will seek His plan, and basically determine to forsake making our own plans, we will succeed in whatever it is we are doing. I have never read of anyone in the Bible who failed when they acknowledged God first and followed His plan and His direction for carrying it out. The failures only came when they pursued their own plans.

We have accepted a teaching that says you often have to fail before you succeed. I am sorry, but I don't read that in the Bible any where. As I said, you will not find one person who was truly led by the Lord and His Spirit that ever failed in what "HE" directed them to do. Again, the problem lies when we make our own plans, when we assume this is the plan of God, or we move out and do things our own way. Then we are assured of failure. But when we acknowledge Him, listen to His instructions, obey by following what He says, then we are promised victory every time.

Have a great day. Our plans will easily fail, but when we follow God's plans we will succeed.

For further reading:
Jeremiah 10:23; 29:11
2 Chronicles 26:5