Our Scripture for today is Proverbs 19:21.
“Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.”
In 1880, experts gathered to make a 100-year plan for New York City. They scratched their beards and scribbled calculations about the future. They saw the crowds, counted the growth, and reached a confident conclusion that by 1980, they would need six million horses to move everyone around.
Six million horses!
They had the data. They had the trends. What they didn’t have was knowledge of the automobile, the subway expansion, or a thousand other plans God had in motion.
Here’s a truth tucked inside their miscalculation: man doesn’t know enough to know what’s best. But God does.
You’ve made plans, haven’t you? Good plans. Prayed-over plans. Maybe they crumbled in your hands like dry leaves. And yet, looking back, can you see it? The way God made something better from the tangled threads?
We plan because we’re human. God prevails because He’s God. He sees around corners we don’t even know exist. He holds tomorrow in His hands.
So make your plans. Do your best. But hold them loosely. Because the God who surprised those 1880 planners with automobiles has a few surprises for you too, far better than six million horses could ever deliver.
His purpose will prevail. That’s good news for your worried heart.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.