Plans Have Their Place

Planning has its place. Consider these verses:

• Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.  Proverbs 24:3–4 (The Living Bible)
• Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?  Luke 14:28
• The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.  Proverbs 21:5
• But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.  Isaiah 32:8
• Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.  Proverbs 19:21
• Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”   Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.   Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”  James 4:13–15