I love a good map. Pulling open the paper, I can see the path the road will take. Then, I can plan which way to head, if I need to diverge this way or that, or what alternatives I have.
It would be nice sometimes to have a map like that for life. Tracing along the path, I could see joys, detour the sorrows, and avoid the hurts. Honestly, that is what I would do if I could see that map. I would avoid the hurts. But, God puts the hurts in front of me at times, at other times He allows them to come into my path. “It is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
The Lord’s purpose, the Lord’s plan is something that is a mystery to us. We don’t have a map that shows what is coming next. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart.” But we don’t steer a straight course, we don’t go the way we should, and at times we get lost. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
We can take comfort in that, that the Lord’s purpose prevails.
~Proverbs 19:21
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