House Of Cards

Why is it that you can identify a problem, get a particular idea in your head as to how to solve it, spend an hour or two working out an entire plan of action, get everyone to agree - and when you start applying it, it simply doesn't work; the plan starts to fall down like a house of cards!

What went wrong? Were there simply too many chances for things to go awry? Did the individuals concerned really commit to the plan? Should there have been more planning? Was this the right way to go about it?

Or should we have done something else in the first place?

Oh well. Back to square one.

James 4:13-16 (NIV)
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.