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Proverbs 27:1 - Keeping perspective on planning

Another catch up comment.  I think I got this one out of order.

You probably won't be surprised to find out that I enjoy classical music.  I often say to Glenda, "They don't right music like that anymore." when I hear a particularly magnificent work.

Here are two proverbs that Solomon didn't write.  Or if he did they didn't make it into scripture.  Proper prior planning prevents poor performance. Fail to plan, plan to fail.  Working in the nuclear power industry for 35 years made planning an integral part of life.  Millstone has groups of people who do nothing but plan. (refueling outages and day to day maintenance for example).  But I think there is a difference between good planning and boasting about tomorrow.

Blessings,

Jeff

Listening to Bach harpsicord concerto #1 in D minor on WMNR.  Occasionally I wonder how such things came to be written.  Did Bach wake up one morning and say "I think I'll write a piece of music that people will still be listening to 300 years from now"  Did he have a yearly plan to write a certain piece each day?  Or did he just sit down at the keyboard and start improvising and then remember everything he just played and write out all the parts.  It is a mystery to me.  But one thing I do know, he wrote SDG at the end of every work for the church.  SDG stands for Soli Deo Gloria.  To God alone be the glory.

So what does this have to do with not boasting about tomorrow?  James 4:13-17 commentary on this proverb:

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”  As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.  So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

I think Bach understood his life was a vapor.  He made the most of his gifts every day.  He didn't put off until tomorrow what he could do today.  We are all blessed by his faithfulness.


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