Submit Your Plans

It’s easy to think your wedding plans are too trivial or insignificant to bother God with. With everything going on in the universe, we can convince ourselves that we should handle things like party planning on our own and save our bigger problems for God.

However, the Bible tells us no situation is too small to take to God. In fact, Scripture challenges us to go to God in every situation (Philippians 4:6). We don’t have to wait until we reach the end of our rope, or find a problem we can’t solve. We can present our requests to God from the beginning and trust him to take care of us.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Again we see we are to submit to God in all our ways. God wants to partner with us in every area of our lives, not just the ones we think we can’t handle on our own.

When we submit our plans to God, he promises to make our paths straight. We no longer have to carry the weight and anxiety of the end result. God has promised to establish our plans if we commit them to him (Proverbs 16:3).

Does this mean that everything will work out exactly as we envision it? Not necessarily. By submitting our plans to God, we are stepping down as god of our own lives and letting him take his rightful place on that throne. We are trusting that even if absolutely nothing goes according to plan on our wedding day, God is still in control and will take care of us.

Have you been tempted to try to handle everything on your own? What do you think it would look like to submit to God in every area of your life, including planning your wedding? As you read the following verses, ask God to partner with you in planning and reveal to you any areas of your life that you have not yet surrendered to him.