Plan Not Plot

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
PLAN NOT PLOT
Prov 14:22
22 Do not those who plot evil go astray?
But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.
NIV
If a person is not planning good, which in this case, this setting, is talking about a relationship with God, then all else would be considered evil. What else is good other than God? He has declared that man’s heart is deceitfully wicked. How could any man plan good if it is not based on accepting God’s provision for his salvation? If man plans anything for his own pleasures it has to be evil because it does not include God. In this planning for self, without God, man will always head in the wrong direction and thus be going astray. He is headed away from God instead of toward him. Whatever thoughts man has devised based in human terms are plots of evil. Man’s philosophies, ideologies and even theologies which are based on man’s own mind are not headed toward God but are headed astray. God is the only thing man can plan on which is good. To plan in living in the realm of his Kingdom rather than in the realm of this world is not only a good plan, it is the only plan as all the rest are plots. No matter how diligent a person is in his plotting toward his own future, it is doomed to go astray, if it is not based on God’s plan for his life. There is no hope of finding love and faithfulness without finding God first. Life without God is a lonely path to travel. Whatever attempts to find love and faithfulness without God fail, and people knows and understands they are really all alone in the world, even if they endeavor to hide it from others, they know in their heart, they are all alone. Why would anyone want to travel that path of plotting their life without God? Is self-pleasure and self-fulfillment worth the end result? Who in their right mind would desire to go astray? Why is the truth so painful to accept? Are they so deceived by Satan they cannot even see the truth? The only way to finding love and faithfulness is to find God. He has declared if people will only seek him, they will find him, if they knock, the door will be opened and they will find all the love and faithfulness they will ever need. Simply plan and not plot.