When David the shepherd boy went out to tend his sheep on that memorable day, he felt it would be a day like any other, leading and guiding his sheep and coping with the odd lion or predator. By nightfall he had been anointed as king-in-waiting. Paul’s journey to Damascus was like many others he had made, being as much nuisance to those obnoxious Christians as he possibly could. By the end of the day he had been confronted by the God of the universe, the very one he had been fighting against. Adam started the day in the garden of Eden and finished it outside, banned from entry. All these people had planned their day, but the reality was very different.
Of course, we need to make plans for every day and for the future; drifting will get us no-where. Financially, health-wise and business-wise we have to think about the coming days, months and years, But also within the planning there needs to be flexibility to allow the Holy Spirit to work out in our lives. We need to be aware of His nudging, He can suddenly ask us to do something for someone else or do something that is completely out of our plans. We can only see a few hours ahead, God can see the whole of eternity. We only know about our small circle, God can see right round the world to the end of earthly life. His plans for us started at the beginning of time.
‘For we are God’s handiwork, created by Christ Jesus, to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.’ Ephesians 2:10