A Different Plan

It was on Wednesday that, as the gospel of Matthew says, "they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him."

I was struck on this reading that they planned this in just two short days.

Two days.

In two days, a few humans planned and executed the plot that would change the world... FOREVER.

Yet, this plan was in the works long before Wednesday. God had a plan, from the beginning. And the sly way that the high priests tried wasn't so sly at all.

Jesus knew the plan.

He was in the world, and through the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to that which was not his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

But the world didn't realize the purpose of the plan. And sometimes we still don't know the plan. Yet, the world is more than ready to make a different plan--"a sly plan".

However, despite this "sly plan", the grand plan that started back in the beginning won over in the end.

And this too was part of God's not-so-sly plan.