I’m the kind of person who likes to plan ahead (rather obsessively so, I’m afraid…!), but even I found it rather strange to be making tomato and apple chutney for the Christmas Market on a rather hot day in August!
What is perhaps even more astonishing, however, is Eph 1:4, which says God ‘chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.‘ Now that’s planning ahead!