Do you handle changes of plan, well?

"A person's heart plans his way, but the LORD determines his steps."   Proverbs 16:9   CSB 

What are you like when everything you have planned to do on a particular day, is suddenly changed, no matter how important they were to you? You may think that your diary is set in stone but, God thinks differently, He knows that things can be changed as required, and He can change what He wants to. He doesn't do this however, to wind us up but, because of priority.

When I was working in a busy social work team, my diary would be crammed full of appointments and other important things that needed attention. However, things can change in an instant and all of those important things I had to do, would have to be re-scheduled because of an emergency. Initially, this gave me a problem as I had always been one not to let people down or change situations. But, I needed to change and fast, I had to learn to be flexible.

How do you handle sudden change? Does it cause you stress and panic because you are set in your ways, or are you open to these sudden changes? We know that Jesus never changes (Hebrews 13:8), but He will make sudden changes to our plans where required. He knows what is best for each situation. Life brings changes and we have to learn to live with them to be able to survive. It is similar to the sudden changes to our plans.

Changes to our plans can raise our blood pressure and get our stress level bubbling. But think about it, if we really trust God, would He change things just for the sake of it? If He was testing us, He might, but usually things will change because God has seen a better way - a door has suddenly opened and He wants us to make the most of it. Remember, we make the plans but, God determines what we do about them. He has our interests at heart; He can see things we may miss or He may make a change because of a threat to our lives or ministry. He is ultimately, the best planner of all time and He will never give us things to do, that we're not capable of doing. So stop fretting, trust Him and be a flexible person to a flexible friend.

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