August 6, 2023 Trinity 9 The Sunday of the Shrewd Manager
Trinity 9
Proverbs 16:1-9
August 6, 2023
“Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
“The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” Proverbs 16:1. Or if you like the last verse of the reading today better, “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” Man proposes; God disposes. Man makes his plans, but only if God says so.
In our bulletin this morning we have some proposed plans. Trinity Life Team picked dates for our trip next summer to the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter. June 16, 17, and 18. But will it happen? Will we be in Petersburg, Kentucky on June 17? Only if God says so. Man can plan and propose, but God says so. Just this year I’ve heard of at least two different families who had to cancel trips they had planned. They planned but God said otherwise. “If God says so.” The churchly way of saying that is, “if it be according to the Lord’s will” or “Thy will be done, O Lord.”
What’s on your schedule this week? This Fall? Next year? Getting your haircut this week? If God says so. Cutting apples this week and freezing them for pies at the Corn Festival? If God says so. Having a knee surgery? If God says so. Buying a new home? If God says so. Getting a bell into your church’s bell tower? If God says so. “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”
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