The Best Laid Plans…

(Pro 16:1 KJV)  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

I would say that Moffatt does a good job of translating, or paraphrasing, this verse.

    “A man may think what he will say, but at the moment the word comes to him from the Eternal.”

This is true in every day life but where it speaks to me most is in the area of preaching.  It is hard to express to people what preaching is like, because as much as I prepare, as carefully as I think it out, as detailed as my outline is, it’s sometimes comes out totally different.  I often say things that I had not planned on saying.  I frequently leave out things that I thought were important.  Sometimes I’m aware of the changes.  Sometimes I’m not.

You could lay this down to personality, insight, editorial changes, or anything else but when it comes to preaching, at least, I think it has to do with the leading of the Holy Spirit.  That is the way preaching should be.  We should prepare and pray and be ready.  We need to allow the Holy Spirit to take our preparation and present it in His way.

So?  I guess it also applies to every day conversations.