God's Giant Plan For You

The plan I have for myself won't always work out, but God's plan for me always will...

Go ahead! Scribble and dance over the pages with your colorful pens and stick as many stickers and washi tapes as your heart desires onto the miniature squares of your planner as you arrange your entire life's plan. Then watch as everything begins to pan out. You'll begin realize that that plan---those arrangements---no matter how much time you spend arranging it, will never work out, nor pan out in any way you planned, because God is in your charge and His planner is the true, giant planner, whose dates are always exact.

We can fill thousands of notebooks with our graduation date, mission call, what college we'll attend, number of dates before marriage, wedding location, amount of kids, names of kids, amount of pets, future career, count of wrinkles, date of death, etc etc, but nothing will end up like we'd planned. If anyone was foolish enough to write out their timeline, they'd eventually realize that those planners would eventually find themselves in the trash or within the blazing, devouring fire. Life always has its "unexpectancies", trials, celebrations, joys and heartbreaks, yet those are the works and mercies of God, because He knows what we need. He has His giant planner in hand for us, and has already paved out our lives, day by day, hour by hour, miracle by miracle. As long as we make sure God's in its making, we can trust that somehow, it will be better than anything we could have planned ourselves.

Sometimes I look up and I think about my entire future of where I want to live, what I want to pursue, who I'm destined to marry, how many kids I'm gonna raise, what church callings I’ll have, what my trials will be, etc, but the truth is, I can't plan that, because everything I've planned already has completely dissolved.

I can't make my life happen. Only God can. And sometimes, knowing that, is severely frustrating.

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Sometimes we want to do everything OUR WAY. We want to walk the paved, straight road of life, but walking that road takes effort, sacrifice, and plentiful tears. What we want to see---what we want to desire---will be transformed to what the Lord sees and desires for us. If our plans were perfectly aligned to work out how we planned and when we planned it, we wouldn't become the refined, valiant souls we are today. Though God's planner is mixed with booboos, tears, and disappointments, those are what ultimately mold us into who we're destined to become. God's plan is purely beautiful.

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I have to put effort into walking and trying to let God arrange my cause. And though it is frustrating—though I want to altogether shut the blinds of God's vision for me and just budge through my "laid out" vision---it is altogether worth it to use God’s planner, because He has the best kingdom and most ornate tiara waiting for me above. I trust that somehow, even though it might seem like a roller coaster at first, it will all work out.

Throw away your thick, scrappy life planner and trust in God's giant plans for YOU.

xo

Makenzie Monson