Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast. I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip

Ministries team. Join me each week as I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's Word devotional.

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hear another poem from Paul reflecting on the beauty of God's plans and how they surpass our own.

Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life?

For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say,

if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. James 4. 13 through 15.

Had firm plans, good reason to go, prayer and anticipation, preparations finalized, all details covered, we're ready to go, thankful for what's ahead.

Started the day knowing what we would do, but a call comes, everything changes in a second,

confusion sets in, minds race, can't go.

What now?

If not now, when? Why? With plans interrupted, we are confronted with

truth. We are not in control. Every human plan submits to a greater divine plan. Every rational

initiative submits to divine reason. Every human choice submits to divine will. No matter what we want, no matter how we think, no matter what we believe, no matter how much power we assign to ourselves, the universe moves in submission to its creator, King.

We have been designed to purpose and to plan. We have been crafted to think our way through life. We have been gifted with the ability

to choose a path and to walk it. In the exercise of these amazing gifts, we must humbly bow in recognition

of the providence of God. He is what is best for us. He knows what is best for us. His reasons rest

in the secret of his holy counsel. He is good in every way,

completely devoid of evil thought or intention. There is no malevolence in his motivation. He looks

on us with boundless love. In his wisdom, he will act in ways that confuse us, leading us into

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