Last week we remembered that Jesus walks beside us even when we don’t notice He is there. This week we are reminded that God is in charge, even when we try to take matters into our own hands!

/wp:paragraph -->wp:paragraph -->

There’s an old saying, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” The phrase was coined by Allen Saunders in a Reader’s Digest article in 1957, later appropriated by John Lennon in his song, “Beautiful Boy.” I think all of us can resonate with that line, as well as its companion wisdom, “Want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.” 

/wp:paragraph -->wp:paragraph -->

We try in vain to plan out our lives, but nothing ever really goes “according to plan.” Just as we love to control our destiny, as we saw in the disciples’ journey to Emmaus, we also lo…