When Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Adam Becker

By Adam Becker
Most people have goals and plans. Even from an early age some boys want to be firefighter's and some girls a nurse. Some goals take a lot of doing and others not so much but if we are productive people we have them. Christians especially have goals and plans after all they want to be world changers and touch people's lives. Our two most important goals should be to love God and love people. It's important that we don't get lost in all the striving after things in this world and forget that. Those two things, the whole law of God rests on, and are the two greatest commandments. So, we love but we do other things in our lives and make plans.
When Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Adam Becker
 
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Most people have goals and plans. Even from an early age some boys want to be firefighter's and some girls a nurse. Some goals take a lot of doing and others not so much but if we are productive people we have them. Christians especially have goals and plans after all they want to be world changers and touch people's lives. Our two most important goals should be to love God and love people. It's important that we don't get lost in all the striving after things in this world and forget that. Those two things, the whole law of God rests on, and are the two greatest commandments. So, we love but we do other things in our lives and make plans. What often happens though is we make plans and they don't go the way they are supposed to. I have literally made a goal and then did everything that everyone else does with that goal that is supposed to get you to a certain result and it didn't work. I was like that? I did everything right and did what it takes, and I failed. I symbolically mixed blue and yellow together and it didn't make green. How could it not make green? My friend's brother Joe did it the way I did and it worked for him. Why didn't it work for me Lord? It leaves you feeling frustrated with many questions and no answers. Having plans and doing everything right and not getting the result is irritating and can get you upset. It also makes you never want to set a goal again and work towards something. After all it may not work like the last time, why waste all that time and effort.
 
There were people in the Bible that things didn't go as planned for. Moses was supposed to lead Israel into the promised land, Abraham was supposed to posses the land, Joseph was supposed to marry Mary with no problems and live happily ever after. John the Baptist was supposed to ride off into the sunset after preparing the way for Christ and so on. Sometimes we are responsible for why our plans don't work out. I think that the story of Samson is an example of someone who had a great calling but messed it all up with his womanizing and anger. Yet in the end of Samsons life God still carried out His plans. Other times we may not have done anything wrong like Joseph and Mary. God stepped into their life and changed things up. God does this sometimes, we can do everything right, but He has His own plans and things we do doesn't work out like it should. It can be hard to know sometimes whether we ruined our plans or God did or even if Satan came in there and destroyed things. And looking back in the future we will see more clearly but for now we must be humble and trust God. 
 
Believe God at His Word
 
Throughout the years of all the things going wrong for me and failing at so much stuff it is hard to trust God. You start to wonder if God really is a good God. You wonder if there is an anvil that is about to drop out of the sky on you around the next corner. You expect the bad and for plans to not work out. We can blame the devil but the devil can only do what God allows so you go back to thinking God does not have your best interests at heart. You don't want to get to that point or think that way but you have. I want to stress though that what you put your faith in you can make room for so if you think that God is a mean God that's what you may get. We need to think positive. We need to believe God at His word despite what we see. We may not have all the answers but the Bible says:
 
Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV) 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
 
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare [a] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
 
Philippians 1:6 (ESV) And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
 
Proverbs 19:21 (ESV) Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
 
Romans 8:28 (ESV) And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, [a] for those who are called according to his purpose.
 
The Bible says God has good plans for you and will work all things for good. It also says that man has many plans but Gods purpose will be the one that stands. So, we can know according to the Bible that God is not a mean God. He doesn't always have bad in store for you. But we need to trust Him when things don't go as planned that He may have his own plan and its better than ours. If we are the ones that ruined our plans we can also know that God can work it out for good. Maybe you weren't meant to get the result in the first place. Sometimes it's the journey and not the goal that is the point. The journey can teach us things and prepare us even if we fail to do something else that we will need to do. We just need to trust. God is good and your future is good. When blue and yellow don't make green don't get frustrated or upset. Just know that God is in control and He will work it out. Gods ways are not mans ways!
 
Adam Becker
 

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