The best laid plans...

I was checking my e-mail last night. Sounds exciting right? Well, its something that has to be done so I was checking as I do every night. One particular e-mail caught my attention. It was an e-mail by a company that I had recently applied to for a position. I got very excited. Who wouldn't? After all, I have been without work now for almost 7 months. My heart started racing and my palms got sweaty. I almost didn't want to open it. I took a deep breath and clicked on the e-mail. "Thank you for your interest in the position but we have decided to go with someone else." Rats! How come I knew that's what it was going to say? I was very, very disappointed. I didn't start crying but I came pretty close. I just knew that the end of my trial was coming. I found myself, once again, trying to encourage myself. "God has a plan. This just wasn't the one He wanted for you right now." My wife did her best to pick me up. She's great. It just wasn't a good time. I didn't want to hear the same old words that I hear all the time. I just wanted to sit in the quiet and stare into nothingness. I needed time to think. I just kept saying, "God has a plan. God has a plan. God has a plan." Then I started thinking about the Israelites. 40 years they wandered in the wilderness. I'm sure some of them kept saying, "God has a plan." Noah built his ark for almost 100 years. I'm pretty sure he said more than once, "God has a plan." When Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers he probably had to tell himself a couple of times, "God has a plan." Do you think anyone who was involved with the marching around the walls of Jericho ever said, "God has a plan"? Countless hundreds of thousands of saints down through the years have been in long, hard trials. Many of them, if not all of them, probably had to say, once in a while, "God has a plan." I don't want sympathy. If you know me, then you know that is the last thing in the world I want. Please don't sympathize. I'm fine. Just pray for me. I simply want to remind you that when the darkness is so dark that there seems to be no end in sight, "God has a plan." Galatians 6:9 "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." This trial may seem like it has no end, just remember, it does. When the devil keeps lying to you and saying that you will never see the light of day, just say "God has a plan." In the words of "Remedy Drive", "Hold on, daylight is coming to break the dawn." Go to the bottom of the page for this and other videos. They will all be an encouragement to you. Be still children, "God has a plan."

LW