INNOVATIVE PLANNING by charles r. swindoll
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oseph had an innovative plan, some- innovation and creativity. It had never been thing that had never been done before. done before. It will never be done again. It “In order for the land to produce, we must was a once and for all Master Plan only the spread out over this land,” he said. Prior Creator could envision. As He did with Joseph, the Father does to this they had been settled in only a few well-populated regions. Those places with us. In His great arrangement of life, represented their homes, their work, their He does not discount man’s sin; He deals farms, and their neighbourhoods. They with it. He deals with the hard questions were asked to relinquish all that. That took of life. Not questions like how do I make a some selling—an awful lot of convincing. living, but how do I make a life? Not how But Joseph managed it, and he spread the do I spend my time, but how will I spend eternity? And not so much how do I get people out across the land of Egypt. along with the person Leadership calls for From the virgin birth who sits next to me, but the stretching of creativultimately, how do I get ity. If you are a leader, to the death and the along with God? When you will occasionally Resurrection to the we answer the hard find yourself up against soon-coming of Christ, questions correctly, all a blank wall. It’s big and intimidating and usually the plan of Almighty God the others fall into place. May we be models tall and slick. You can’t is packed with innovation of diligence, honesty, push through it, climb and creativity. compassion, and creover it, or see your way around it. That’s when it gets exciting! ativity. May our work be an extension of That’s when innovative juices start to flow our integrity. And may each one of us who and you begin to think about possible names the name of Christ as our Lord be a ways to get beyond that wall. Innovation positive influence on those around us and and creativity (not to mention courage) a faithful representative and ambassador team up, determined to find an answer for Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. and a way. Jesus Christ carried out the most innovative, creative plan this world will ever know. Taken from Charles R. Swindoll, Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of From the virgin birth to the death and the the Bible (Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2005) 39. Resurrection to the soon-coming of Christ, Copyright © 2005 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All the plan of Almighty God is packed with rights reserved. Used by permission.
