knowing God’s plan

At 6:00am on Tuesday mornings, I make the drive down to Grace Community in order to join the shepherds and under-shepherds of the Crossroads ministry. They are reading through Trusting God by Jerry Bridges and this last week discussed the chapter on God’s Sovereignty and Our Responsibility. Several men pointed out different things from the chapter, but they kept coming back to the issue of dealing with the unknown circumstances of life.

Then Andy Snider very simply stated that we are not called to try and figure out God’s plan for our life. We should not be thinking, “Now what is God doing here?” or “What is He trying to do in me?” This is an issue because Scripture does not tell us that we can know God’s plan, but it does reassure us that if we are faithful then He will provide and sustain. We must wait for the Lord and trust Him that no matter what happens, He is in control and will work out the present circumstances for our good and His glory.

This principle can really free us from worry that can come from trying to figure out God’s plan. We don’t know what He is doing, we can’t know, and our obedience and faithfulness to Him doesn’t depend on us knowing.