His Power - His Plan

Every expectation of my day is rightly faced with this: we will see. Every ounce of effort spent in planning and anticipating what is to come is best rooted in ... what will be will be. How foolish Nebuchadnezzar was to imagine he could keep the exiled Jews in captivity beyond what God had planned! Jeremiah reminded God's exiled people that it wasn't Nebuchadnezzar but Almighty God that determined their future. God said to His people, "For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you ... plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11, AMP). You know, of course, we all have our own Nebuchadnezzar moments - those times when we [too] imagine we're in control of the days of our lives. Oh, take care lest any of us suffer the humiliation at such arrogance; when King Nebuchadnezzar claimed undue sovereignty, God said to him, "O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you ..." (Daniel 4:31, ESV). Even common sense and logic should be enough to convince us to trust He Who is Sovereign with our lives; it is, however, by faith we yield our will to The One Who numbers the hairs of our head and length of our days. To Him we humble ourselves and in Him we place all our trust. He knows all things and is able to complete all things according to His purpose. It's always ... His power - His plan.