"Commit your activities to the Lord , and your plans will be achieved."
~Proverbs 16:3 HCSB
I read a day in the open heaven's devotional last year and it was about committing our activities to God. Daddy Adeboye let's us know in that devotional that we can't be halfway in a goal or a plan and involve God, from the very beginning if we don't give everything to Him and tell Him to take control, we're basically telling God that we can do it by ourselves and we don't need His help..... Which is a lie, a huge one!
James in James4 tells us that we make all these plans of days, weeks, months and even years ahead... When we'renot certain of the next minute, or if we may see the next day:
"Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring — what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes."
(James 4:13-14, HCSB)
And he then tells us the correct way to say it...
"Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it."
(James 4:15-17, HCSB). (1/2)