A Change of Plan // Following Jesus with Confidence, Part 3

<p class="p1">Don’t know about you, but if there’s one thing I hate, it’s when someone upsets my apple cart. I have a plan to do this, to achieve this … and someone comes along and forces a change in my plans. Ooooh how I hate that.</p> <p> </p> <h4 class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #ff9900;">1. A Change of Plan - The Holy Spirit</span></h4> <p class="p2">So, what do you have planned for today, tomorrow, the next day, next week, next month? We all have hopes, dreams and plans. How we see the future – what we have to look forward to – plays a pretty important part in how much we enjoy our lives today.</p> <p class="p2">This morning, I got up and looked at my diary – for a change, things were pretty clear, normally I have a lot of things in my diary. The reason is that I plan ahead. So – preparing radio programs – I normally have several pretty solid blocks of time during each week to do that.</p> <p class="p2">Time in the studio. Meetings. Admin stuff at the office. Perhaps the odd catch up with a friend. Men’s group Friday mornings. But this morning, it was pretty clear, so after a time with the Lord, I sat down to start putting some thoughts together for another radio program.</p> <p class="p2">But yesterday … yesterday – I had a list of 27 items to get through – got through about half of them, which isn’t bad. But in the middle of some really important stuff, off goes Skype on my desktop, it was one of our team from Africa calling me.</p> <p class="p2">Now, I hadn’t spoken with Joseph for a couple of weeks, and I really wanted to talk to him – but part of me was … well, not annoyed but agitated, because I had all these things planned for today, and yet now I was being interrupted.</p> <p class="p2">Of course I chatted with him and it was great – but it’s that reaction of having my plans interrupted that’s the really interesting bit. I’m sure you’ve experienced it too – really good plans, and then someone comes along and interrupts them.</p> <p class="p2">It happens in the small day to day things, and it