Pro-Verbs 27:1 Vaporized Plans

Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening...depending on when you are reading this. Are ya ready for tomorrow?

"Do not boast about tomorrow...for you DO NOT KNOW what a day may bring forth."
(Pro-verbs 27:1)

I knew a guy once...who was always bragging about the job that he was going to get..."tomorrow". The only problem is...it seemed like every time I say him a week or two later...he was bragging about "another" job that he was going to get tomorrow. it seemed like tomorrow never came.

Sometimes we try to speak forth "by faith" what will happen tomorrow...and instead of speaking forth "by faith" we speak for "by presumption". There really is a place for "calling things that are not as though they were" (Romans 4:17)...and to "walk by faith and not by sight" (II Corinthians 5:7)...and "believe that what he says is going to happen"...but when we try to put a time table on the invisible becoming visible "by faith"...we will be disappointed when TOMORROW COMES...and the prayer request does not. Our faith is towards an answer and not towards God.

Pro-Verbs 27:1 is underscored many years later in the book of James."Come now, you who SAY today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit. Yet you DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOUR LIFE WILL BE LIKE TOMORROW. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you OUGHT TO SAY...If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.. But as it is you BOAST in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil...THEREFORE...to one who knows the right thing to do...and does not do it...to him it is sin." (James 4:13-17)

It is not wrong to plan...but the bottom line is...the attitude of the heart. The humble heart lays the plans on the altar. The plans also includes the time frame for the answer. The bragging heart just plows ahead and states what they are going to do...what is going to happen and when the results will take place. Once again...the Pro-Verbs...shows Positive Action for our plans.

Love and Submitted Kisses
Rodney "Plans On The Altar" Boyd