Plan B
How many of us have experienced life as we had planned… Plan A?
I’ve come to see that life is not always about Plan A. Life is about how do we adapt to Plan B or Plan C and so on.
I am nearing my mid-thirties and as I reflect on my life and the plans that I had, I can see that not many of my Plan A’s came to pass. That’s not to say that some good things can’t come my way and I am continuing to believe that they will.
The question is how do we handle the pitfalls, the disappointments in life, and the let downs?
The Book of Psalms gives many wise principles in life as well as promises that we can hold on to. It says to cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22 This verse was written for anyone who will take it and believe it.
Our bodies were not meant to worry
and take on the ‘cares of life’. Our Plan A has turned into Plan Z
because of detours and failures in our life but we can recover and our
Plan B or Z can become Plan A.
The first step is to give our worries, concerns and stress to God. He
didn’t ever create our bodies to carry that stress. Our health has
been deteriorating and more and more illnesses have been touching our
families. Could some of the side effects of worry, fear and
unforgiveness by rooted in our health problems?
If we will give our burdens to God, He will sustain us. Sustain means to give support or relief, to support, to carry or withstand, to bear up under. God wants to be our Source of peace, support and relief.
He said that He will never let the righteous fall. The righteous are those in right-standing with God; those who have come to Him with open hearts and believe that He is and confess Him as Lord and Savior. Our Plan A may have gone ‘down the tubes’ but God has a wonderful Plan B or Plan Z.
God will give us a fresh start. Those of us in the agricultural world have had many plans go out to pasture. Our plans have gone up in smoke. There are real tough issues we all have had to face. But God wants to bear us up. He wants to give us support, relief. He wants to carry us. He wants to be our peace. Peace means ‘nothing missing, nothing broken.’
We need to humble ourselves to ask, to acknowledge that God is and that He wants to be divinely connected with our everyday lives.
I have heard the phrase that “we can either become bitter or better”. We have a choice to make. Will we let the cares of our life dominate our minds and families? Or are we willing to let our Creator, the God of the universe bear us up, relieve us and carry us?
It boils down to where we will put our trust... in ourselves or in our God. As we release our plans into God's hands, He is given the opportunity to pour into us what we need and make Plan B become a wonderful plan for our life!!
It starts with each one of us