Plans

Plans. Plans for life. Plans for love. Plans for lunch. Plans for saturday. Plans for you. Plans for me. Plans.

Plan.
Definition:
"System for acheiving objective. A method of doing something that is worked our in advance."

My entire life as well as the lives of those around me are solely built off of plans. Some plans are very specific.
"I'm going to THIS school marrying THIS girl, I'm going to do THIS job, have THIS many kids, and die at THIS age" (Exaggeration. Check)
Some are very vague like
"I plan to start here, and then maybe this, or maybe that, I dunno we'll see"
Either way, you have an idea of what you'd like to do with your life. I'm at that age where you really start making alot of plans. But, sometimes plans don't always bring the desired outcome. Sometimes you made a bad plan, or one that wasn't bad just not right. Sometimes God has a totally different plan than you. Sometimes you might even be halfway through a plan before you know what HIS plan is.
Jermiah 29:11 says
"For I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
God sees the big picture. All I see is right now, and what I want to do. In the last few months I've started to see alot of contrast between my desires and God's desires. The path I would choose is very different from the path HE would choose, and It's tough to realize you might not be able to see your plans come into play.
But, I've been in the word alot lately, and my faith has grown, and as I've grown closer to Christ, my outlooks and desires have changed, and along with that, my plans have changed in a path that is much closer to God's path. When you have a close walk with the Lord everything changes. Your attitude, your personality, your happiness, your purpose. You begin to have a compassion for those who are alone or lost. You want to take that love and bring it to anyone and everyone. You also are able to see people better, and I mean that in two ways. You can see the bad in people more, AND you can also see the good in people more clearly, and that becomes more desirable. I mean, no joke, ever since I've strengthened my faith, I've seen girls in a totally different way. I used to like alot of different girls, before really knowing them. When you become Godly and have a strong faith, you become far more picky, haha. Seriously, once you have God, I mean REALLY have God, you only desire a girl who also REALLY has God, you know what I'm sayin? Ryan gets me. Yo, Ryan! Where you at?

Anyway,
I'm learning more and more how futile and foolish our plans are. God's plan will always prevail anyway, why try and decide what's going to happen? When you place God in the center of your life, all the plans get set for you, and you don't often have to decide anything! God just puts you where he needs you. Word!

-Evan