The Life I've Planned

The Life I Planned

 Beth Moore

 

Has someone seen the life I planned?

It seems it’s been misplaced

I’ve looked in every corner

It’s lost without a trace.

 

I’ve found one I don’t recognize

Things missing that were dear

Promises I’d hoped to keep

And dreams I’d dreamed aren’t here.

 

Faces I had planned to see

Hands I planned to hold

Now absent in the pictures

Not the way I told.

 

Has someone seen the life I planned?

Did it get thrown away?

God took my hand from searching

Then I heard Him say,

 

“Child, your ears have never heard

Your eyes have never seen

Eternal plans I have for you

Are more than you could dream.

 

You long to walk by sight

But I’m teaching eyes to see.

I know what I am doing

Til then, you must believe.”

 

He’s done so much, I felt ashamed

To know He heard my moans

To think I’d trade in all He’s done

For plans made on my own.

 

I wept over His faithfulness

And how He’d proved Himself

How He’d gone beyond my dreams

And said to Him myself,

 

No, my ears have never heard

My eyes have never seen

Eternal plans you have for me

Are more than I could dream.

 

Yes, I long to walk by sight

But You’re teaching eyes to see

You know what You are doing

Til then, I must believe.”

 

I felt His great compassion

Mercy unrestrained

He let me mourn my losses

And showed to me my gains.

 

I offered Him my future

And released to Him my past

I traded in my dreams

For a plan He said would last.

 

I get no glimpses ahead

No certainties at all

Except the presence of the One

Who will not let me fall.

 

Are you also searching

For a life you planned yourself?

Have you looked in every corner?

Have you checked on every shelf?

 

Child, you ears have never heard

Your eyes have never seen

Eternal plans He has for you

Are more than you could dream.

 

Perhaps you long to walk by faith

But He’s teaching eyes to see

He knows what He is doing

Child, step out, and believe.