Thought on a Hot Summer Day
Feeling the heat today. The repairs to the church air-conditioning are still not complete. So we are making do.
I am always making plans for this or that, and then, life intervenes. The plans go out the window, and I have to scramble to adjust. To paraphrase Robert Burns, “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.”
I only really get in trouble when I insist on my original plan, or complain that my planning is more important than the new information and circumstances. Why should my plans be more important that those of others or of God?
Humility seems to be the right attitude for a Christian. It is a kind of self-forgetfulness.
“Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.” ~ Archbishop William Temple
Why should my plans be more important than those of others or of God?
I have pondered this question many times. This is why I have never been a long term planner, I don’t like To-Do lists, and I get frustrated when I do try to make a plan that doesn’t come to fruition. On more than one occasion I have heard myself saying “If it weren’t for all these interruptions, I could get some work done.” It’s a good thing God has a plan! Once again I have been humbled to acknowledge that the “interruptions” have always been my work, God’s work, through the ministry of CityHeart.