New Year's Plans

Isaiah 55:9 – For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. (AMP)

While praying and meditating on some of my written plans for this year, I hear the desire in my prayers and thoughts to get things right, and in the right sequence of priority: God's priorities, not mine.

The more "grown-up" I become, the more I hate wasted time, having to go back over things, and the more I desire my time to be used in God's most fruitful ways and will. It's not just "New Year's plans" that I want to be working on or working towards through the year, but "God's best plans", because God plans best — far better, far higher than I can, or ever will, even though I'm not half bad at planning, and at being organized, focused, quietly determined, and tenacious. My plans are much less than God's best for me/us, and for my/our year ahead. God's Word tells us so. The heavens and all that, and Who is in them, are higher than the earth; so are all God's thoughts higher than mine/ours.

Can we dare this year to surrender all of our ways, thoughts, and wills to Him only, in exchange for all of His highest plans? Can we surrender our lives, our families and friends, our love, our worship, our service, for His best plans for us and for them?

Can we, this year, not only live in His Word, but be permanently looking toward Him and actually be living His Word? If we can and if we do, we'll be living higher than we ever have, and so will all those we are related to and love.

Our personal relationships with our Lord will be so much richer, deeper, and dynamic, exciting, enthusiastic, joy-filled, righteous, and more worshipful, serene, stable, solid, Rock-like and powerful. So, 2010 stand back: we are coming through in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!

Prayer: Precious Lord, we humbly and gratefully thank You for all the possibilities, through You, in our lives and in the lives of our brothers and sisters, and our families and friends. Thank You for all Your ways, thoughts, and plans for all of us. You are truly and ever faithfully our all in all. Amen and Amen!