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Proverbs chapter 19, verse 21.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man,

but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

That is a good word, isn't it?

Like many are the plans in the mind of a man. You think about all the plans you and I have come up with at different points in our lives. We're like,

oh, we're going to do this. We're going to do that. Like the plans of our mind come and go. They

vary. They shift. We think about some plans we've made

that we thought were the greatest thing in the world,

like if only this could happen,

and then they actually did happen,

and we realized that wasn't the greatest thing in the world.

That actually wasn't helpful at all.

So our plans created by our finite minds

are oftentimes, let's be honest, foolish minds. And I don't mean that to

sound overly negative, but just to be real. Like we often make foolish plans because we don't have

all knowledge, we don't have all perspective, we make plans, we don't realize

how it's going to affect this person or that person, we make plans for our lives that we don't realize

it's going to lead to this or that. And so in the end, we make some foolish plans. It is good to know

that it's the purpose of the Lord that will stand. that God's purpose, he doesn't flounder,

he has all knowledge, he has all perspective, he never has done or will do anything foolish,

never, he's all wise. It's good to know that it's only the purpose of the all wise God that will stand.

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