Shipwrecked: The Better Plan

The other day while I was making the long drive from Virginia back to Florida, I heard this pastor on the radio addressing the subject of God's plan for our lives. He was asked what it meant when we start out with Plan A and end up on Plan B? I've asked myself this question numerous times over the past year. And after much reflection God has revealed to me that I suffer from a very limited perspective. Most of the time we equate Plan B with being bad, or being our punishment for messing up along the path of Plan A, but this perspective lacks an understanding of God's grace and who He says that He is. Sometimes we do end up having to go with Plan B, because of a circumstantial crisis caused by disobedience, or selfishness, but for most of us who would claim to follow God's leading, we wouldn't put ourselves in this category. What happens when you've sought God in prayer consistently, for direction and wisdom, and still you find yourself on Plan B?

Sometimes because of my limited perspective Plan B can feel like a shipwreck, but what I think is a shipwreck is really God's plan A. And my Plan B has been God's Plan A all along. After graduating from seminary I had to release my Plan A to God, not because it was selfish or unachievable, but because God had to revamp my plan, so that it totally reflected Him, and at this very moment He is still in the process of refining me and my original Plan A to fit His bigger, better plan for the glory of the kingdom. So in doing this, He has made what I would've considered Plan B into His plan A.

Now all of that may be a little confusing, but the point is, is that if we are seeking the Lord and following His leading there is never a Plan B, but only His Plan A. Romans 8:28 states that He is working all things out for the good of those who love Him. Our God is not a Plan B kind of god, but He works all things out according to His Plan A. So be encouraged, never loosing hope, because Plan B is right where we need to be.

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:19

"He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:9