In terms of God’s plans, I don’t think He has backup plans. He has a plan and that’s what’s in place. However, because He chose to use us as His instruments and also gave us free will, we rarely follow His path to completing the plan in a straight and smooth line. Getting Plan A completed sometimes takes us on a wide and meandering, over hill and dale route.
If time is a factor and we don’t have our act together, He will make certain that whatever needs to be done is fulfilled by someone. He simply does not leave people to chance. In terms of our involvement, this is not a one mistake on our part and we will never have the opportunity to be of value in the future. But it also means that we may miss our opportunity in this particular situation.
One thing we need to remind ourselves of is that God’s timetable isn’t ours. I’m terrible about getting ahead of myself. What I need to do is to be available and aware. What is happening may be a ‘warning’ of how I need to prepare in order to be available at the time. It would be helpful if I could see the end from the beginning, but I can’t and I really hate to be presumptuous. So, when I sense something I need to stop and quiet myself to discover what, if anything, is being asked of me.
Also remember that nothing is really hurried. If we are panicky then we can be certain we’re out of sync. We can be assured that the plan is in place and will accomplish what it’s set to do. We all have roles to play, we all have assignments but at the end of the current situation, we also need to move on because there will be a new role, a new assignment. There really isn’t time to sit back and savor or rerun ‘what if’s’. Learn from previous assignments, yes. Stay in the past, no.
