Proverbs
20:24
A man’s
steps are from the LORD,
how then
can man understand his way?
A new year.
The old has passed away and the new
has come.
The year of 2013 played out very differently from the way I had
imagined it going. On January 1st, 2013 I would have never guessed
that within one year I would have moved across the country and be teaching in a
classical (I didn’t even know what ‘classical’ meant in relation to education!)
Christian school. I also would have never guessed that I would have been
involved in a serious car accident or that my confidence would be shaken so
completely. It just goes to show how little we really know about our own lives.
I’m thankful for a God who not only knows the whole course of my life already,
but that He also is in complete control of it.
Proverbs
19:21
Many are
the plans in the mind of a man,
But it is
the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
Something about a new year really brings out the
contemplative and reflective side in people, myself included. Seeing how God
has worked this past year makes me wonder about this upcoming year. Now of
course I know that not every year will bring such radical changes to my life as
this past year brought, but you never know which years will bring the “major”
changes. So, where do you think you will be in one year? Where will I be in one
year? My imagination isn’t able to conjure up a very different picture right
now. I imagine that I’ll be in very much the same place physically. Probably in
Seattle, still teaching at PCCS, and attending Trinity Reformed Baptist Church.
I hope that my circle of friends will have expanded a tiny bit more with
perhaps a close friend or two in Seattle. I’m hoping to have a new car by the
end of the year. Spiritually I hope I am more mature and in love with my God
and Savior. I want to be primarily concerned with the things of the Lord and
not so easily distracted by the world or by the opinions of humanity.
Proverbs
16:9
The heart
of a man plans his way,
but the
LORD establishes his steps.
It is good to plan and make goals, (it would be
much more difficult for me to purchase a car this coming year if I don’t plan
and make saving goals!) but it is so important to remember that even the best
laid plans are only that: plans. There is no way to absolutely ensure that
the plans will go exactly the way you or I had imagined them going. Come to
think of it, I can’t think of the last time one of my plans went exactly
the way I had planned! And that is why it is so comforting for me to know that
my Heavenly Father has every detail of this coming year carefully laid out. He
will glorify His own name and that is a plan that cannot go awry!
So, what plans are you making this year?
Are you
ready to see how God takes those plans and makes them conform to His own
infallible plan?
Sometimes it’s rocky.
Sometimes it tough.
Sometimes it seems
like the world simply cannot carry on.
But it is always under His complete
control
and for His ultimate glory.
Have
a happy New Year and a blessed 2014!
