“He traps the wise
in the snare of their own cleverness.”
1 Corinthians 3:19
I remember watching the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show on Saturday mornings. I would go bouncing into my parents bedroom around 6:00 am and ask if I could watch cartoons. Dad would grunt something (which I understood to be "Sure Son, go ahead.") and off I'd go. In reality the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show was 3 hours of wonderfulness!
If you remember, Wile E Coyote tried all sorts of schemes to catch the Road Runner and failed every single time. He would diagram his plans and kept Acme Supplies in business. On paper, they were the epitome of ingenious....however, in reality, they always failed. Yet he kept on planning and trying.
WE are like Wile E. Coyote! Believing we are wise and intelligent, we make our plans, which at first glance seem perfect! Think about this: We will go to school, graduate, find a nice spouse, get an amazing job where everyone likes me, buy a big house and bigger car, have a couple of kids, and live happily ever after. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? How often does that work out according to plan?
I had plans like that. I did everything I could to make that plan become a reality. However...God had HIS plans for me and they weren't what I had planned so perfectly. I would get SO frustrated with God because MY plans didn't work out the way I wanted. But God's plans, I ultimately had to acknowledge, were and are MUCH better than anything I could ever have dreamed.
Therefore, permit me to introduce myself...My name was Wile E. Coyote before I admitted that God's plans are always the best. Now I am Paul, child of God.
