Today's rant in the Art Department is entitled: "The Art of Executing the Plan." By now your plan has been fervently prayed over and your resources are in hand. If you do not have your personnel and finances in hand, you are still in the planning phase so revert back to “The Art of Planning.”
The first step is to actually take the first step. This can actually be the hardest part of the whole plan. Be prepared to be very flexible especially at the beginning. Be advised that no strategy ever survives first contact with the enemy.
Day One: Put it in gear, and start moving slowly in some direction. It is actually much easier to change the direction of a vehicle that is actually moving than to try to turn the wheels and then start to move. Try pushing a car with the wheels turned. No, straighten the wheels, then when the vehicle is moving turn the wheels.
Day Two: Now that the vehicle is moving, look around to see if it is pointed in the right direction. More times than not, you will have to make adjustments in your direction. After moving smoothly and seemingly well, you may see a ditch or roadblock ahead. Being dogmatic in your plan will only put you in the ditch. Be prepared to adjust your steering. Some things work very well temporarily, but after a while the direction must be altered somewhat.
Day Three: Be prepared for bad weather. No plan for God will go unopposed by the enemy. There will be storms. You may find yourself stuck in a big mud hole. Rocking your vehicle back and forth, screaming and kicking will only get you dug in deeper and stuck tighter. Now is the time to sit tight, pray and wait. God owns a very big tow-truck.
If this is His work and His plan that you are executing, He will take care of things. However, He will take care of things His way and not yours. Sometimes His ways are completely impossible to understand. Sometimes they take a very long time. Are you willing to follow God’s plan if it takes many years of seemingly unfruitful labor? What if you die before the work is done and another is given the task of finishing the work you started, labored over, and for which you sacrificed. What if someone else is credited and praised for the work that you did? Before you even begin, you must hand it over to God and allow Him to execute the plan in any manner He sees fit.
