for this summer and I started to get a little sad looking at some of the things I had planned for this summer and then going through and saying cancelled, cancelled, postponed, cancelled and it can be a little disheartening when our schedules change and when our plans change. And so today we're going to be talking about what to do when our plans change and how we can look forward to the future and make future plans with some principles we learn from God's word. You know, one of the things that led me to this point of wanting to speak on this topic is thinking about our seniors and thinking about those that are going through their senior year and where their plans have completely changed. This is something that nobody could have guessed. This is something that no one could have predicted, but nonetheless, the situation we're in now has changed our plans tremendously. And I think it's safe to say that everybody's plans, those watching, those that are in attendance today, obviously our seniors' plans have changed, but those especially that are watching, I can guarantee you plans for you have changed in some sort of capacity. The problem with change plans is that some of us adapt to change better than others. I know for me growing up, I had a lot of change in my life with moving and going to different schools and transitions and all that's great, but it still never made it easy. I'm a creature of habit. I like to have a set schedule. I like to know what's going to happen. I don't like surprises per se. And so many of us have a very difficult time with change plans. But I want to encourage you this morning that whether you adapt well to change or whether you don't adapt well to change, I truly believe that through change and through our change plans, God could be doing an incredible work in our lives things that we can't see yet, things that we don't know yet. And so we're gonna look in the book of James this morning, so I would encourage you to turn in your Bible to James chapter four, verses 13 through 17. You can scroll over on your phone or your mobile device or however you use. Scripture, look that up, but my prayer for us today is that as we dive into this story, and as we read James chapter 4, verse 13 through 17, that we discover some ways for, and some principles for how we can plan for the future because right now things are very confusing. Things are, it's very difficult to plan for our future not really knowing what's going to happen, not really knowing when things are going to open, not knowing really the next few months hold a lot of uncertainty. So it's extremely hard to plan. But we're going to look at James 4, 13 through 17 and discover some practical ways, some things that should give us some encouragement for when we make plans in the future. So a little background on James before we read this passage. James is an incredible book and we know that James authored the book under the inspiration of God, the Jewish Christian house churches outside of Palestine. And one of the things about the believers in these churches were that they were suffering great from persecution and poverty. And because they were suffering from those two things, it led to some issues in the church. One of the issues specifically that we see James address is that because of the persecution and the poverty, it was leading churches to adopt worldliness and worldly practices in the church. And so, because of that, worldliness had entered the church and it had really thrown some churches off. And they began to look more like the world and less like the church that God intended them to be. And so James is addressing several different issues and topics in this letter. I would encourage you, it's not a super long letter, it's a short letter. In fact, I have several friends who have the entire letter of James memorized and I would love to do that one day. But it's an incredible book, it's one of my favorite letters in the New Testament. You can sit down and read it in a short reading, in a short session. One of the other reasons I love the book of James is that some scholars and theologians refer to James as the Proverbs of the New Testament just because of the wisdom sayings and the practical wisdom and advice that it gives to believers for living out our faith and walking in a way that honors and glorifies the Lord. So James 4, 14 through 17, we're gonna read it and then it's gonna launch us into what we're gonna talk about today. So God's inspired word tells us starting in verse 13, 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. So as we come to James 4, 13 through 17, we see James having a conversation with a group of wealthy merchants. And the issue that James has with these wealthy merchants is the fact that they are making plans for their future endeavors without having any regard or concern for what God's plans may be for them. In fact, we're going to get into this a little bit later, but at the heart of their planning and at the heart of their decision-making, is pride and arrogance. They really have no concern for what God may want from them. They're making plans and thinking those plans are definitely going to come to fruition, and they really think they can just survive and exist without the counsel of God. And so here's what I want to say starting off. It is not wrong to make plans. In fact, I think it is wise to make plans. I think it is wise to have some plans set in stone. You know, growing up, my dad always said, and I don't necessarily think this came from him, but it's something maybe he read somewhere that he said over and over, to me and my sister, he said, if you don't have a plan, you plan to fail. If you don't have a plan, you plan to fail. It's something my dad impounded in me growing up, and that's something I've never forgotten to this day. Now, what he's saying in that is it's not inherently wrong to make a plan, but it's important to make plans. It's important to look to our future and think about our future. You know, for our graduating seniors, they've all had to make plans. They've all had to make decisions for what they're going to do in the future and how they're going to spend their time in college or what they're going to do for a career. And many of them probably don't know exactly what they're going to do yet, but it is important that we have some sort of plan. But that is not the issue that is being addressed here. The issue is just the pride. and arrogance of planning without considering what God's will might be. So this morning, I'm not gonna necessarily give you an A to Z list of when you sit down, this is how exactly you have to plan your future. What I want to talk about this morning from God's word is that James gives us some very practical things to consider when making plans. Some things that as believers, this should be something natural to us as we make future plans and as we plan out our calendars or our schedules or decide what we're gonna do with our life. So, I wanna break this down in a few different parts, and we're gonna look at some key areas in this passage where God uses James to convict these wealthy merchants, but to show them a better way of making plans for the future. So, hopefully you have your sheet with blanks. I'm gonna give you those to fill in this morning, but that's gonna kind of launch us into what we're gonna talk about. The first thing is that I wanna bring up is proper planning involves a proper perspective. Proper planning involves a perfect proper perspective now notice in verse 14 James tells them that their life is a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes our life is compared to as a myth. When it comes to planning our future, we need to realize that our life on earth is short compared to eternity. And when we start to understand that concept and start to grasp what that exactly means, I think it will change the way we plan for the future because having proper perspective of our life will lead us to planning in a way that honors and glorifies Notice what Proverbs 27.1 says, do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring. This verse speaks about not being prideful in thinking that we know what will take place tomorrow or in the future without having regard for what God might be doing instead. You see, at the heart of our planning and at the heart of our deciding what we're going to do in the future, I think we have to understand that we can plan all we want But in the end, God has ultimate say. God has an ultimate plan for our life. You know, we can make all the plans we want, but we need to understand this morning that God is in control, that He is sovereign, He is Lord, He is on His throne, and His plans for our life may look completely different. If you want to know if our plans can change at the drop of a hat, just ask any of our graduating seniors here this morning. All of them went to school one day. Then over the weekend, they found out that school was going to be cancelled for the rest of the semester and that they wouldn't be able to participate in a lot of things they were really looking forward to participating in. You know, thinking about the time we're living in today, we don't know what tomorrow holds. We don't know what next week holds. We don't know what next month or the next few months or even the next year holds because there's so many uncertainties. But at the end of the day, we know that life is short compared to eternity, that our life is amiss. Job 7, 7, Job makes this statement. He says, remember that my life is a breath. My eye will never again see good. Then over in Psalm 39 5, it says, Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath. Both of these verses speak to the fact that our life is so short. It's here today and can be gone tomorrow. And in comparison to eternity, our life on earth is extremely, extremely short. I think so often we don't have this perspective of our life and it causes us to build up pride. It causes us to have a prideful heart and thinking we have everything figured out for our future and thinking that our plans are the best plans in all reality. I think James wants to humble these wealthy merchants by telling them, look, you can make as many plans as you want, and you can make plans to go to this town or this town to make a profit, but at the end of the day, that's only going to happen if it's God's will. That's only going to happen in your life if that's God's plan. You know, James is painting this picture of a mess. And to be more specific, James is using a picture of nature to describe to these wealthy merchants about how quick and how fast life really can be. And he's talking about the vapor that appears. And then as the sun rises, the vapor goes away. The morning vapor or also comparing it to smoke that can be blown away. by the wind, and it's here now, then it's gone the next second. And so he's using this picture and this analogy and this description to let the wealthy merchants know, you are not promised another day. Your life is a mist. And when we understand that, when we are not promised another second, another hour, another day, It should change the way we live our life. It should change the way we plan. It should change the way that we look to our future, which goes into the next part in your notes. Life on earth is temporary. Life on earth is temporary. Turn over to 1 John 2, 15 through 17. This is the passage that speaks about the world and how the world is passing away and really talks about how pointless it is to put our hope in our stock. in the fact that this world is eternal because it's not. 1 John 2, 15 through 17 says, do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. So it is so clear from that passage that the world is passing away. This is not our home. We're simply just passing through. And so the way we live and the way we plan, we should have that in mind that the world ultimately is not our home. We oftentimes put so much time and energy and resources into building our kingdom here on earth when in all reality, that kingdom on earth It's passing away. It's a bad investment. It's a bad investment of our resources. But when we make investments for eternal things, when we serve the Lord, when we minister to others, when we give up our resources and our time and our energy to further the kingdom, those are things that are going to have eternal reward. Those are things that we're going to get to enjoy forever and ever. So as James is calling these merchants out for their wrong thinking, One of the things we need to understand this morning is that life on earth is temporary. I want to read you a quote from the famous preacher Charles Spurgeon. He gives a quote about this and it's so good. He says, unless we purposely live with a view to the next world, we cannot make much of our present existence. Let me read that again. Unless we purposely live with a view to the next world, we cannot make much of our present existence. Such a bold, such a clear, such an incredible statement made from Charles Spurgeon and it's so true because when we have that in mind that our life is considered a mist that can be here one day and gone the next, it changes everything for us. It helps us to live every day like it might be our last. It helps us not to put off the things we need to be doing today. It helps us to live for the Lord. It helps us to do ministry. It helps us to do things that we need to do and not put them off but understand that Life is precious, that every breath we have is a gift from the Lord. That everything we go through in life, the days we live, the time spent with friends and family, the times we spend serving the Lord are all precious gifts. And so we should have that mentality. Look at James 4.15 as we move along. James 4.15, look back in your Bibles, it says, instead you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. The third thing you notice this morning is every decision we make regarding the future should be based on submission to God's will. Every decision we make regarding the future should be based on submission to God's will. So first, James tries to give the merchants this perspective of their life and lets them know, hey, you were amiss. So that's what you need to understand. You are so small compared to God who is so big. So making plans and thinking that you're in control of your destiny and your plans It's foolishness. But then he goes on to give them very practical and specific wisdom on how their mindset should be when they're making plans. And if we're to break this passage down and kind of find the heart and the ultimate meaning of what God is trying to tell us through this story, it would be this, that in everything we do, in the way we plan, in the way we plan our future, in the way we schedule things, we should have the mentality, if the Lord wills. If the Lord wills, we will do this or that. And when we have that mentality, it causes us to be humble. It causes us to live in humility, recognizing that we are not in control, but God is. You know, this means when we have that mentality, we're coming and we're bowing before God, recognizing that, God, I can make all the plans I want to. I can schedule out my calendar. I can schedule out my plans. But Father, if that's not your will, I'm okay with that, and I'm going to live in that knowing that you are ultimately good, that you are in control, and that I am not." You know, we could do an entirely different study on the will of God. You can read scripture and you can read passages. What I don't think this is saying is that we have to sit down and figure it out exactly what God's will is for our life before we move or take action. I think the heart of this passage is what it's trying to tell us is that when we do plan the future and when we evaluate the things we spend our time on and the investments we make, I think we must understand that there may be a time God may change our direction and our path of life. I want to share just a quick story about my graduation from high school and moving on to college. So graduating high school, I had absolutely no clue or idea what I wanted to do with my life. My plan was to attend a two-year community college where I started out, outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. After two years, I was gonna go and major in business management at the University of Tennessee. I had no idea what that was or what that meant or what that was gonna lead me to, but it sounded good, and I was like, you know, that may make a lot of money one day, so that's what I'm gonna do. So I started out, and I went to community college, and then it was my second year in community college, and God had really been softening my heart, and I had opportunities in college to intern in ministry, and I had some very godly men pour into my life. And ministry was something I just couldn't get out of the back of my mind. It's something that I felt called to, but something that I didn't necessarily want to pursue. And so I'll never forget, I was taking a math final. And math was never my best subject, so this may sound like it was a cop-out to get out of my math final. But I remember sitting in a math final and just thinking like, what am I doing? Why am I wasting my time doing these things and investing in these things when It's really not God's plan or God's will for me. I'm not passionate about this at all. And it was after that math final when I finally made the decision, I'm transferring to Bible college. I'm going to pursue ministry because this is not what I'm passionate about. This is not what God has called me to. Now, my plans were completely different from God's plans. My plans were to go to a two-year college, to eventually go to the University of Tennessee and enjoy time with my friends. In fact, all of my family graduated from there and I'm the only one that didn't attend there. But those weren't God's plans for me. But what's incredible now as I look back is I wouldn't be here today at Wildwood Baptist standing on the stage delivering this message if it wasn't for God intervening and changing my plans completely. You know, many of our high school seniors here today may have their entire life mapped out. They may have their plans, where they're going to attend college, where they're going to work one day. But the incredible thing is oftentimes God will change our plans. Oftentimes God will take what we think is what's best for our life and shows us what his plan and what his path and desire is for our life. And when we have this mentality that Everything we do and plan should be left in the hands of God and understand that it's not in our control but in God's control. It will help us to adapt to our times in our life when plans do change. One of the things that, as a believer and as a Christian, one of the things on our heart and our mentality should constantly be is the will of God and following that for our life. The model prayer when Jesus prays the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6.10, one of the lines in that prayer, I know you're familiar with it, but it says, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So we live and we pray and we plan, asking for God's will to be done in every aspect of our life. Following God's will or plan was extremely important to Jesus as He walked the earth. And He was a perfect model and an example of someone who constantly drew strength from following His Father's plan. In fact, towards the end of His life on earth, Matthew 26, 42, as He prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prays this precious prayer. And I want to encourage you to go and study that on your own, but it's just an incredible, incredible part. of the story of Jesus where he prays and in verse 42 it says, again for the second time he went away and prayed, my father if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done. Let me read that again, again for the second time he went away and prayed, my father if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done. Now we know that this comes in a part of the story where Jesus knew that he was about to suffer greatly, that he was going to experience a great deal of pain, but that he was also going to experience the wrath of God his Father, who he had had complete communion and fellowship with as he walked the earth. And so he knew what he was about to endure, he knew what he was about to go through, but yet he prayed, God, your will be done. And so through the suffering, through the hard times, through the valleys, it is so important that we have this posture of asking for God's will, for God's plan to be done in our life. Because more often than not, God's plans are completely different than our plans. And that's okay, because God always knows what's best. He's always doing something incredible in our life. So Jesus had that mindset, that mentality. Also, we see the Apostle Paul. Now the Apostle Paul, we won't get in great details about him, but hopefully you know his conversion story. I'd encourage you to go to Acts and read that. But the Apostle Paul did some incredible things for the Lord, some incredible ministry, but he also suffered greatly. for for the Lord and when he had this mindset of when God had called him to do ministry and his ministry travels look what the Apostle Paul proclaims in Acts 18 21 it says but on taking leave of them he said I will return to you if God wills and he set sail from Ephesus now the Apostle Paul He understood that his plans to return to Ephesus were all based on the Lord's will. And he gives us a great example and a model for how we should pray and how we should live. When we make plans and when we schedule our future, we should always come under the umbrella of, if the Lord wills. We're going to do this or that if it's God's will. Because at the end of the day, submitting to God's will includes us just coming before Him and humbling ourselves. There's another thing about the Apostle Paul that I want to make note of here, and your next blank is, submitting to God's plan starts with making Him your treasure. Submitting to God's plan starts with making Him your treasure. Philippians 3.8 is a pretty common verse and you've probably read it, but it says, indeed I count everything as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ. You see, when it comes to our future planning, when it comes to us sitting down with our schedules and planning out our future, the desires of our heart and the things that we pursue will ultimately alter the way we plan. And if our treasure is Jesus, if God is our treasure, if He is our priority, it will change the way we plan and change the way we think about our future. You know, the Apostle Paul in Philippians 38, We see this incredible statement where he counts everything as lost. Now, if you do any studying on the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul had an incredible resume. I mean, his family history, his knowledge, he was one of the smartest men, knew all kinds of things, knew the law backward and forward. And Paul had just an incredible resume. But yet, even through that resume, after God saved him and after God put him on a new path and a new journey, one of Paul's desires was to pursue God above everything else. He looked so forward to being with God in heaven for all eternity, and that changed the way he viewed his life, the way he viewed his suffering, the way he viewed his plans, because his plans, he always wanted to submit to what God's plans were. for his life. And so, even though he had this great resume, he still wanted to honor and glorify the Lord. And so, our plans, our future, and our desires, when they are in God's hands, we can be assured that the things that we want to do may not come to fruition. The things that we want to accomplish, the plans we may make for ourselves may look completely different one day. But at the end of the day, that's okay because God's in control. We must plan everything in the future in submission to God's will. So as things start to open back up and as our schedules start to look a little more normal over the course of the next few weeks or few months or the next year, I think it is so essential and important that as we sit down and make a calendar and plan that we submit everything to God's will. Because just as none of us knew what was going to happen these last few weeks, how it just kind of came out of nowhere, we've had to learn to deal with it. We've had to learn to live with it. And we have to understand that this can be a teaching moment for us, that God's trying to show us that you can make all the plans you want, you can have all the calendars and the organization, and your calendar can be full of this, this, and this, but at the end of the day, it can change at the drop of a hat. But that's okay because we trust in God and we submit our plans to His plan and His will. Let's read James 4, 16 through 17 again. It says, 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. So one of the last things on your notes this morning says, humble living leads to humble planning. Humble living leads to humble planning. Now, this is so important for us to understand because as James is calling out these wealthy merchants and as he's telling them, here's how you need to plan and you need to submit everything you do to the Lordship of God and to God's plan and God's will, one of the hearts behind the merchants' planning was a heart of arrogance and pride. And that is the same way it looks to God when we plan without considering what His plan or His will might be. You know, when we don't pray about our plans, when we don't pray about our future schedules, and when we don't seek His will and His face and His plan for our life, it looks completely prideful and arrogant. Now, like I said before, it is not bad and it is not sinful to make plans. It is not sinful to have a calendar and make plans. And I know for me, if I don't make a plan, if I don't have a calendar, I will forget to do something or forget to go to a meeting or forget to do some of the things that are important. And so it's very important to make a plan. It's important to calendar and be organized. There's nothing wrong with that. But what is wrong with that is when we say that there are plans and we don't understand that God could change our plans and that's okay because God knows what's best. We have to fight the urge and battle our sinful flesh that tempts us to want to plan our own future with no regard for what God's plan may be. And at the end of the day, that's what these wealthy merchants were doing. They were making plans to go and make a profit and go here and go there and just really could care less about what God's plans were for their life. And so, God may change our plans. He may have something planned for us that we never thought would have ever happened. But in the end of the day, His plan is always better than our plan. And we have to fight the temptation of plan and do things out of a pride and arrogant heart. James 4, 6 says, but He gives more grace. Therefore, it says, God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Proverbs 3, 34 says, toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. See, God desires a humble life because he desires a life that hides itself in him. We get in trouble in our relationship with the Lord when we try to be self-sufficient. We get in trouble in life in general when we think that we control our destiny, we control our life, that we can just plan this or that with no regard for God. The problem is because of our sinful nature and because of our sinful flesh, we want to go our way 100% of the time. We don't like people telling us what to do. We don't like coming under authority. We like to resist authority. We like to resist when people try to speak into our lives. Ultimately, we try to make ourselves our own God. But if we want to be successful in our planning and if we want to plan and organize our future schedules and honor and glorify the Lord, we must come under his lordship and understand that He is in control of all things. And that if it's not His will for what we think should happen is gonna happen, then it won't happen. And we rest in the fact that He is in control and we are not. Two more verses that speak about the danger of prideful living. Proverbs 16, 18 says, pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 26, 12 says, do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There's more hope for a fool than for him. So these verses describe the foolishness involved when someone thinks they control their own life. It's absolute foolishness. And James was calling out the pride and the arrogance of the wealthy merchants in this passage and telling them, You need to humble yourself before the Lord. You need to ask if He wills. You need to ask what His plans are and be okay with Him changing your plans. You know, I think if we have that same view of what James is trying to convey to these merchants of just planning in a way that honors and glorifies the Lord, it will allow us to have freedom in knowing that our plans may change, but we can rest in the fact that God is in control. and that even though our plans may not be the plans we wanted or we thought were going to happen, that God's plans are better than our plans. You know, for those of us that do not like change, it can be so easy to throw our hands up in anger and just not understand and just make everybody around us miserable and just pitch a fit and just act so angry and upset and feel like the world is crumbling. But I want to encourage you that when we have this mentality that God's will is better than our will, that God's plans are better than our plans, then we can adapt to change in a way that honors and glorifies Him. You know, for these seniors today, they're going to have an opportunity to tell people that, you know, my senior year was altered, it was changed, but God is good. God is good and He's still in control. And I'm going to submit to His will and His plan for my life and keep my head up and encourage others. And that's a testimony, that's a story that they're going to be able to share for years to come. And it's amazing how, not only for them, but for people who have had their plans and their lives altered by the pandemic we're in. We're gonna be able to use this as an opportunity to magnify how beautiful and glorious Jesus Christ is. Be able to share the message of hope and of grace with so many other people. And so I pray that we're able to use this as a way to further the kingdom of God. Your last blank in your notes today, and something I wanna encourage you with is, When plans change, God remains the same. When plans change, God remains the same. Listen, there may be things that you have been looking forward to for a long time. There may have been things that your whole life you were looking forward to and they were going to take place this past spring or they were going to take place this summer and those plans have been altered. And that thing that you were looking so forward to participating in didn't happen the way that you wanted it to. I want to encourage you to take hope in knowing that God is the same, that God is unchanging, that you can continue to trust in God in the midst of an unchanging world and an unchanging culture. You know, like I said at the beginning, our seniors have sacrificed so much and they have given up so much, but at the end of the day, God is using this to write their story and God is using this to allow them to use this for ministry. Not just for our graduates, but there's a good chance that those tuning in, you have missed out on something, but I just want to encourage you that God is using it for His glory. Take hope in knowing that when things don't go our way, when things change, God stays the same. Hebrews 13a says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. In a world filled with instability and uncertainty, we can put our faith in a God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Pastor Steve and the praise team is going to come back up and they're going to lead us out in a song. But I just want to ask you a question this morning concerning this passage and concerning the things we've talked about is, do you consider God's will in your future planning? You know, how can we live in light of this passage when we plan for the future? You know, we can't change how we have planned in the past, but we can change how we plan in the future. And we can change our mindset when it comes to planning our future, to planning our schedules, to planning our calendars. And I know that God is at work in the midst of these uncertain times. and I know that He is at work, and I know that our victory is in Him, and that it's one of the most freeing experiences to put our plans in the hands of God, to put the things that we want to do, to put the things that we, the path that we think we're heading on, to put that all in the hands of God and trusting that He is in control and that He is good. When it comes to future planning, we must adopt a proper perspective, we must submit to God's will, and we must continue to live a life of humility. Those three things that James teaches will go a long way as we plan for the future and help us that when things change, when plans change, God is still good. And God's plan is always better than our plan. And so although we're living in such uncertain times, we know that We can put our faith and our trust in God who is in control, who is sovereign. We are not in control of our own life. God is in control. And I know that the best days are ahead for God's people in his church, that he is going to use the situation we're living in and use the adversity we've gone through for his glory and to bring about many people to know him as Lord and Savior. So how are we using this time and how are we going to move forward? Will you bow in prayer with me? Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for this day. Thank you so much for the fact that we get to rest in your promises. We get to rest in the truth that you are sovereign, you're in control. Father, and when things don't make sense, when our plans change, when our schedules change, Father, we know that you are still good and you are still in control. So, Father, let us humble ourselves. Let us live a life of humility, recognizing, Father, that you ultimately are good and you are in control. And Father, I pray for our seniors here today. I pray for everyone watching who have had plans altered or changed. And Father, I just pray that we use this as an opportunity to grow closer to you, for our dependence to grow more upon you, and for us to walk with you daily, and to serve you, and to minister for you. I truly believe you're going to use this time for your glory, and you're going to allow us to do some incredible things. So we thank you for that. We thank you for who you are. It is in your holy and precious name I pray. Amen.