Day 329 Bible Readings – Proverbs 19: 21 (ESV)

Ezekiel 47-48, 1 Peter 4, Proverbs 19: 13-22

Proverbs 19: 21 (ESV)

“Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.”

Verse 21 from Proverbs 19 gave me a chuckle because it so true. You can make up plan after plan in your mind, but the only plan that will work in the end is God’s plan. I have this wisdom so true in my own life. I had so plans for myself in high school and college, most of which never came true. In high school I wanted to be a lawyer with a CPA, so I could come back home and open up my own practice. Then in college I decided I wanted to be a language interpreter at the United Nations, so I took a language course. But two years after that I changed my mind after I heard a college alumni speak and disparage the U.N. Then I thought I wanted to work in advertising, so I changed my major. I remember going to some seminar before I left college, and we had to write down where we wanted to see ourselves in 20 years. I wrote down that I would have be living in New York City off Central Park West. Later when I did end up spending time in New York City, I decided I couldn’t live there because it was too crowded, and I didn’t think I could deal with riding the subway every day.

But if I study my life deeply, I am pretty sure that I was following God’s plan and not my own at least in the big things in life like career and where to live. If you asked me in college whether I would be reading the Bible every day and writing down my thoughts on what I’d read in a blog, I would have laughed. Reading the Bible every day was not on my bucket list. I mean it’s not like I didn’t want to read the Bible, because I did want to read it once from cover to cover. But only because my college theatre arts professor yelled at our whole class that we were missing all the references and homages in great literature because we were all Bible illiterate. But reading the Bible every day – NEVER! Yet here I am reading it every day and loving every minute of it, because I know I am fulfilling God’s purpose for my life.