LeBron James and the Plans of Men

Before the NBA season began, LeBron James made headlines when he chose to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers to join the Miami Heat.  Most people would care less except James went on TV to announce the decision.  James would join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh to be a trifecta that would bring a championship to Miami.  Such is what everyone thought, except the Dallas Mavericks.  Last night the Mavericks won the NBA championship.  Miami may win another year, but not this one.  Such goes the plans of men.

The Bible says in Proverbs 19:21, many are the plans in the mind of a man,but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.  Men make plans and sometimes they materialize but not always.  We make plans for vacation, and we take it.  We make plans for retirement and we do so.  But sometimes, we make plans for vacation and a hurricane ruins them.  Sometimes we make plans for retirement, and the economy turns sour and our savings dwindle to nothing, so we keep working.

There is nothing wrong with making plans but we must always recognize that there is only one whose purpose stands for ever.  Another James (Not LeBron) said, ¹³Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— ¹⁴yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. ¹⁵Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." ¹⁶As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil."  James 4:13-16

God holds are future, whatever plans we make we must always trust Him.  None of us knows what the future holds, but we do know who holds our future.  We can trust Him.  Think about it.