A Guide to Making Plans

James 4:13–17 KJV 1900

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The Right Way:

Submit to the will of God

Acts 18:21 KJV 1900

21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

1 Corinthians 16:7 KJV 1900

7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

Ephesians 5:17 KJV 1900

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Colossians 1:9 KJV 1900

9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Romans 12:2 KJV 1900

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The Wrong Way:

Ignore the Will of God

Job 9:25–26 KJV 1900

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Job 14:1 KJV 1900

1 Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble.

1 John 2:17 KJV 1900

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.