Upside Down

I was reading in my devotional last night, and I stopped and reread this three or four times...

"How sad it is when we make plans and decisions, and then go to God and ask Him to bless them?"

Yet, that is how I often to do. I live my life, making plans and decisions, and then afterwards I go to God, not to ask what He wants, but to ask Him to bless what I want.

The problem is, I have it upside down.

The Bible tells us that in various places,

"Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD...You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?" (Isaiah 29:15-16)

Lord, turn me right-side up today.