Monday, September 10, 2001
Monday, September 10, 2001
Those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.
It happens all the time. Most of us have been guilty at sometime or another. Planning is
important
to God's kingdom. Making plans for your journey of faith is also important.
(Proverbs 14:22
NRSV)
In 1974 the government of Nigeria decided to bring their country at a single leap into
line with
most developed Western nations. The planners calculated that to build the new roads,
airfields,
and military buildings which the plan required would call for some 20 million tons of
cement. This
was duly ordered and shipped by freighters from all over the world, to be unloaded onto
the
docks at Lagos, Nigeria. Twenty million tons of cement. Unfortunately, the Nigerian
planners had
not considered the fact that the docks at Lagos were only capable of handling two
thousand tons
a day. Working every day, it would have taken twenty-seven years to unload the ships
that were
at one point waiting at sea off Lagos. These contained a third of the world's supply of
cement--much of it showing its fine quality by setting solid in the holds of the freighters.
Poor
planning creates disastrous results.
Dear Jesus, show me the path I should take, as I make plans to grow close to you.
Amen.
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