Directing and Planning --Proverb 16:9

Prov16:9 "The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps." I have been thinking this morning about the difference of planning and directing. Direct his steps means to me to set the directions where the steps should be going. Directing is like knowing where you're going, it's like say you want to have a trip, "direct" means to know whether you want to go to Brisbane or Perth, then "plan" means how to get there: make up the time, organise the trip, find out the best way to get there. It's no point that if you want to go to Brisbane and come up with the cheapest deal to travel to Perth. Bobbie Houston brought out a fantastic message this Sunday about creativity. This creativity to me fits into the planning. It's like when the children are hungry, they come to you crying out, "I'm hungry!" well we can't just say, "now you go to the freezer and find something to eat. there're frozen chicken and raw rice out there somewhere and you just help yourself." for the children, the food on the kitchen shelf and freezer are not tangible, accessable for them, and we need to add our creativity to make up a meal that's suitable for them to meet their need. There're lots of hungry and needy people out there in the world, well all their needs can be met by the good news in the gospel, but somehow the good news is not tangible, accessible for them, they don't know how to apply them and use them to meet their need. Then we need to add our creativity to make the gospel acceptable to them in a way that they can identify and understand. So I think directing says to know what we want to achieve specifically, then planning says to come up with creative ideas with giftings and talents, and organise everything that's needed to get to that goal.