God has a plan for each of us and those plans will find themselves completed. The path to the finality of the plan may play out differently than we might believe it to play out, but the final result will be that which God has put in place for each of us.
“‘39but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!’ So they took his advice,” – Acts 5:39 (ESV)
Gamaliel was speaking to the high priest and all the council. He had laid out the reason that they should be careful in dealing with the apostles. His words ring true I believe to each of us in that when God’s plan is in action, we are powerless to think that we can overcome those plans. The finality of the plans of God will come out regardless of how we may be able to “slow” them down with our actions here as man. Man’s plans however will fizzle out eventually.
“’36For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. 37After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.38So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;’” – Acts 5:36-38 (ESV)
How many other times have we read or heard in the bible of man rising up on their own and ultimately being overthrown by a small band of those that are following God. Man is of no power against God and as such, His plans will ultimately win out and come to finality with the result He had planned for.
I should learn from my failings of the past. I should know that my plans, whereas they may be thought of in/with good intentions, when they are not in line with the plans of God, they will fizzle and fail. It is my duty to align myself with the plans that God has in store for me and when I do, I will be sure to find victory in the end, as God’s plans are not able to be stopped.
What plans have “you” enacted that may not have reached finality? Were those plans in line with those that God had in store for you? What if you were to align with the plans that God has for you, would anyone be able to stop them?
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