Planejamento
O planejamento é sábio, mas deve sempre se submeter à vontade de Deus. A Bíblia ensina que devemos planejar com prudência, mas confiar que Deus dirige nossos passos.
Planejar com sabedoria
Contar nossos dias nos ensina a ter coração sábio. O planejamento prudente é elogiado na Escritura como expressão de bom senso.
So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
For which one of you, when he wants to build a watchtower [for his guards], does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to finish it?
Without consultation and wise advice, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they are established and succeed.
Commit your works to the Lord [submit and trust them to Him],
And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].
Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth;
Cease from your own understanding of it. [Prov 28:20; 1 Tim 6:9, 10]
Deus dirige os passos
O coração do homem planeja, mas a resposta certa vem do Senhor. Seus caminhos são mais altos que os nossos, e seus planos prevalecem.
A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life],
But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them. [Ps 37:23; Prov 20:24; Jer 10:23]
Many plans are in a man’s mind,
But it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand (be carried out). [Job 23:13; Ps 33:10, 11; Is 14:26, 27; 46:10; Acts 5:39; Heb 6:17]
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," declares the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.
Confiança no plano de Deus
Os planos do Senhor são de paz e esperança. Ele revela seus segredos aos seus servos e guia com fidelidade cada caminho confiado a Ele.
For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Surely the Lord God does nothing
Without revealing His secret plan [of the judgment to come]
To His servants the prophets. [Rev 10:7]
May He grant you your heart’s desire
And fulfill all your plans.
Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For I trust in You.
Teach me the way in which I should walk,
For I lift up my soul to You.
A Time for Everything
There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—
For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding].
Do not envy a man of violence
And do not choose any of his ways. [Ps 37:1; 73:3; Prov 24:1]
For the devious are repulsive to the Lord;
But His private counsel is with the upright [those with spiritual integrity and moral courage]. [Ps 25:14]