The Plans I Have Made

A song based on Zechariah 5:5-11 and 6:1-8, which reads,


"Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”
I asked, “What is it?”
He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.”
Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.
Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.
He replied, “To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”
I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses, the second black, the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”
The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world. The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, “Go throughout the earth!” So they went throughout the earth.
Then he called to me, “Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit rest in the land of the north.”

When I read these words I was struck by how inevitable the Lord's ultimate plan is. He is the eternal conqueror of sin and death, and I am invited to share in the certainty of His victory over all these things. There is so much reassurance in knowing that it is finished in eternity.

Verse 1

The sins of all time

Though seeming now to spread

Like sickness across the land

Are gathered and fixed

And one day their time

Will come to the end that eternity rests upon

So have faith

Chorus

I hold your times in My hands

And I teach the winds with My voice

Though clouded in your eyes

Though generations go by

Nothing can hold back the plans I have made

Verse 2

Wrath is poured out

On the idols of men

Now it pursues like a flame

Straining until

I give it leave

To go through the world and give my Spirit rest

So have faith (chorus)

Bridge

Take comfort My child

The burdens you bear

Are already overcome

In eternity's coming day of glory

You will know and see

So now rest and believe (chorus)