Is God in the Planning?

Proverbs16 continues with wisdom for life.  One of the wisest applications in this psalm comes at 16:3 “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”  It’s easy to go through our day to day lives making plans and going about our business and not committing that which we do to the LORD. Many times it is not until those plans go haywire and we find ourselves in a mess that we remember God.  By then rather than asking God to be in our plans, we are asking God to get us out of a mess we find ourselves in. 

It seems that including God in our plans is one of the themes of this Proverb: Verse 1 says "to man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue.  Verse 9 states “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”  Finally the chapter ends with “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD. 

The chapter opens with God being in control of our plans and our decisions and ends with God being in control of our plans and our decisions.  In between those beginning and ending verses are all the ways that we may include God in what we are doing. 

Today, when you are going about the busyness of your day and you find yourself making a plan.  STOP and ask God to be in charge of your planning.  It will make a difference.