Planning

In 1970 an event occurred in Cuba that is remembered to this day and was called 'The Ten Million Harvest'. It was a plan that consisted of producing that number of tons of sugar that year. It was a very ambitious plan that did not have the expected end, it could never be fulfilled.

Things like these happen in our lives and we are not always prepared to face a plan B, I say this from personal experience, it is difficult to accept that things do not turn out as we conceived them and I am sure that this does not happen only to me; Impatience has been my companion for a long time and I thank God that in some way it has worked in this area of my life and has been transforming it.

Whenever my plans were derailed, I would get angry, invaded by a feeling of deep discomfort and worst of all, I would begin to fight against the current and with my own strength to end up faint and frustrated.

In walking with Christ one learns to rest before the sudden and unexpected turns of our plans and the "why?" they are fading, being replaced by faith. We begin to say "Lord, you have something better" or "This was not to your liking" and we submit to his will with full awareness of his omniscience or will the creator not know what is convenient for his creation?

Let us be cautious with the plans, they must be presented to God in prayer and He will show his will. With certainty I can say that when our plan is not according to the will of God, it will not prosper and we do not blame Him for this, as some have by habit, but we meditate on what surely our Father is protecting us because not even in our prayers we always ask for what is best for us (Romans 8.26)

Even in some churches mistakes are made such as keeping an accounting to know how many people each brother preaches to, I lived that experience in a church where the greeting before entering was: "My sister, how many people did you preach to this week?" ? The first time this happened to me I was disturbed and did not know what to answer, at that time I worked as a psychiatrist in a consultation in which I saw 20 people daily and in one way or another I spoke to them about the Gospel, but if I said that, Would they really have believed me?

Today I would not mind answering because my commitment is vertical and I know that God knows everything about me and that is what matters, but I think of all the brothers who even today go through these situations and feel very bad when they have to say - "To one ”Or in the worst case to lie to mitigate the shame before men, but what about the shame towards the Father for lying?

The feeling of being judged with a look of distrust is fatal for some people, let's never make a brother go through this, God knows everything about him and it is God who adds to his church those who are going to be saved (Acts 2.47) .

We cannot preach to fulfill a norm or a plan, proclaiming the Gospel is much more than a goal, it is a necessity of every Christian and even more, it is our reason for being.

Let us always put our plans before the King so that He is the one who approves them and do not rebel when He decides that they should be changed, only He knows what is best for His people and His plans are perfect.