Our reading in Isaiah today points to the topsy-turvy world we inhabit. People think their sins are hidden from God. They, the clay, presume to tell God, the potter, what is good and right. We make plans but we forget our Lord in the plans. Or we make plans involving the Lord but he is our servant, not our master, and he is the one who works all things according to our plan. What do we see coming out of our plans? In recent history we have made lots of new and exciting plans and seen lots of fascinating results. Remember the eugenics movement which led to the rise of totalitarian regimes, most notably the Nazi party in World War 2? Remember the way HIV infections tend to spread and how hesitant governments are to issue quarantines as they would for other highly infectious diseases? How about plans to let students come up with their own values and morality in a values-neutral educational institution? Looked at information about academic dishonesty lately? How about stimulating economic growth by "creating" more money and more jobs? Certainly we come up with lots of exciting plans and they do have results.
Let's look to the Lord of all in our plans. Let's look to our Lord and Savior and the plan he has for this world. Let's learn to accept his word, his wisdom, his authority as what it is - the word, wisdom and authority by which the world was created and by which it is sustained.
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