Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth.”
Honestly? I think that quote applies perfectly to Lent.
Every year, I go in with a solid plan—this is what I’ll give up, this is how I’ll pray more, this is how I’ll grow. And without fail, something unexpected hits. A struggle I didn’t anticipate. A weakness I didn’t know was there. A plan that suddenly feels a lot harder to follow.
And you know what? That’s okay.
Because Lent isn’t about executing a perfect plan—it’s about letting God shape us. Sometimes that shaping comes through unexpected trials, uncomfortable truths, and mid-course corrections.
We can either throw in the towel when things don’t go as planned, or we can roll with the punches. We can let the difficulty refine us instead of derail us. Maybe what we thought we needed to give up wasn’t the thing God was really pointing to.
So as Lent draws to a close, take a moment to check in:
What hit you in the mouth this Lent?
What surprised you?
What might God be revealing through that?
Don’t be afraid to adjust. To surrender your plan for His. Because that’s where the real transformation begins.