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July 30, 2003
The Designer
When a designer builds a house, he uses one set of plans, not two. Imagine the confusion that would ensue if he used two sets and each set of plans came from a different source, one that he drew up and one that was vastly different.
Sounds silly, yet we live most of our life this way. God has a plan and so do we. God has a final design in mind, yet we usually have no idea how things will turn out. Still, time and again we try to live our life according to our plan, not his. Never mind that we don't have a final design in mind, that we're incapable of buildign a flawless structure or that we have no idea what tools and materials to use in setting the course for our life.
Seems things would be so much easier if we stood aside and let God do the designing. We do it in other aspecuts of life, but then again, I guess we don't always.
We let home decorators call the shots when we're clueless, but some people try to fix their own cars or pick their own clothes when it's painfully obvious that they don't have a clue.
Maybe it's not as simple as I started to write. I guess the flaws are much deeper than simple giving up control. Perhaps we're just too dumb to realize how poorly our plans are made and what a limited scope of vision we have.
Posted by Jesse at July 30, 2003 10:23 PM