Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

-James 4:13-15

All of a sudden I’ve been surrounded by a flurry of planning. I think that planning is good. It’s necessary. Heck, sometimes it’s even fun.

But we need to have it in the proper context, and we need to approach it seeking God’s will and with submission to His authority and plan.

Just a thought.