Our plans and dreams

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(J.R. Miller)

" A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9

"There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand." Proverbs 19:21

There are few entirely unbroken lives in this world; there are few men who fulfill their own hopes and plans, without thwarting or interruption at some point. Now and then, there is one who in early youth marks out a course for himself--and then moves straight on in it to its goal.

But most people's lives are very differently from their own early dreaming. Many find at the close of their life, that in scarcely one particular, have they realized their own life-dreams; at every point God has simply set aside their plans--and substituted His own. There are some people whose plans are so completely thwarted, that their story is most pathetic. Yet we have but to follow it through to the end, to see that the broken life was better and more effective, than if their own plans had been carried out.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28
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