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I'm Jensen Holt McNair. I saw a tweet the other day. It included a photo, maybe

you've seen something like it. It's a picture of a stick figure on a bike and they're taking a

straight path to a flag. and that part of the picture is labeled

my plan. Then below it is another stick figure on a bike also headed towards another flag but

his path is full of obstacles and hills.

That one is labeled God's plan.

The tweet that shared this picture, they wrote,

saw this and can't stop thinking about how much better I am at making plans

than God.

I laughed.

Now obviously I know that the sentiment of the meme is that God's plan may look different than yours,

but he's using the difficulty to grow you and build you into who he created you to be.

Sometimes we want the easy path, but it isn't always what's best for us.

But without that theological context, it really does just make God look like a bad planner.

While the tweet may be a light-hearted dig at Crick, God look like a bad planner?

While the tweet may be a light-hearted dig at Christianity,

I think it really does expose a deeper belief

that we all have, even if we don't always want to admit it. See, deep down, we all tend to believe at

one time or another that we are much better at making plans than God. That if we had the reins things would be a lot smoother and

we'd get what we wanted a lot faster and easier. The Israelites thought so too. Numbers Chapter 11 finds the Israelites in the wilderness, beginning their journey from Mount Sinai into the promised land.

After a year at Mount Sinai, God's people are finally heading to the

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