I have my plans.  I know what I want to do.  I know when I want to do it.

I have a schedule.

I’ve got it all figured out.  I know how I want it to all play out.

And, sometimes it does.

Most of the time my schedule works, my plans work, everything goes as I think it should go.

But not all the time. Sometimes things don’t work the way I want them to work.

Sometimes my schedule isn’t working. Sometimes things don’t come in the way or on the schedule that I’d like for them to.

And in those times, that’s went it’s good for me to remember what God said in Isaiah:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, *
nor your ways my ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, *
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God’s ways are higher than mine.  God’s plans are higher than mine. God’s ideas, God’s schedule, God’s purpose is higher than mine.

And, a lot of the time, it’s not the way or time or the anything that’d I’d like it to be.

That’s ok.  It’s not about me. It’s not about my plan or my schemes.

It’s about God’s.

Even when it doesn’t work according my schedule.

There’s a higher schedule.  It’s God’s schedule.

God’s plan.  God’s vision. God’s dream.

It’s a higher plan.

And instead of trying to get God to work according to my plans and schedules, I need to work according to His plan and schedule.

For it’s the higher one.

Today, even if it’s not working according to your plan, that’s ok.

There’s higher plan than even ours  – God’s!