Your Morning Routine Blueprint100job unless I make plans without my boss. Planning isn’t bad
for my faith unless I make plans without God.
Our plans should begin and end with God. We plan with
Him in the beginning and lay our plans at His feet along the
way. In fact, I believe planning is a natural extension of our
worship. If we believe God made us for a purpose and has a
plan for our lives, then isn’t the next logical step to order our
lives around His plans, as far as we can see them?
David made plans to build a temple for God (1 Chron. 28).
Nehemiah planned the rebuilding of the wall in Jerusalem
(Neh. 3). Noah followed a plan for building the ark (Gen. 6).
Planning isn’t deciding where to go; it’s deciding how to get
where God leads. Our schedules and our plans should always
be a sacrifice rather than an idol. It’s all too easy to take con-
trol and cling tightly to our plans, but “unless the Lord builds
the house, the builders labor in vain” (Ps. 127:1). As we con-
nect the dots of our faith, we must hold our plans with open
hands, intentionally keeping our trust in God rather than
ourselves.
Shift 3: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Please note that when I talk about praying over our plans,
it’s not so much about fretting over whether God wants us to
do the laundry today or tomorrow, but rather asking, Are the
things filling my day the things You want to fill my day? Am
I running around trying to make myself feel important and
productive, like Martha, when maybe what’s truly needed is
for me to sit awhile, like Mary [Luke 10:38– 42]? Am I so
focused on my own goals, like the priest in the story of the