Plans

Psalm 119:35-37 NLT
Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found. Give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love for money! Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word.

From the time we are young children we are programmed in this culture to ways of making money. Money is related to the source of happiness. We make it and then buy things to make us happy. How do we know this? The ads on television tell us. And the shows and movies we watch depict people with things being happy.

But after we get that new thing and many find them under their Christmas tree, we are happy for a while and then want something else. Often the desire to get it is so great that we go into debt to purchase it and are paying for it long after our interest in it has gone on to something else. And that debt does not add to our happiness, it adds to our unhappiness.

Instead of living off the plans those in marketing make for us to follow, we need to look to our Father God. He knows the beginning and the end. He knew us before we were born and will be with us as believers after we are long gone from this earthly life. He knows what makes us happy and it is not what we are being told on the television.

Help us Lord. Help us to seek your face and your plans for our lives. Give us a desire to know your Word and to listen for Your voice each day. We want to follow the path you have for us, not our own plans. We want to seek You and not lean to our own understanding or earthly desires. In Jesus name we pray.