[Steve Myers] It's time for March Madness and perhaps you've seen a list like this. It's the men's basketball championship bracket. NCAA Tournament begins very soon, and many people around the country are filling out these brackets, trying to figure out who is going to win. They even have a science involving the brackets. They call it bracket-ology. I don't know where you stand – I'm not a real big basketball fan, I kind of get interested at this time of year and that's about it – but there is a science to this bracket-ology.

As I was thinking about it, what if we used this philosophy a little bit more in our everyday life? Could that help us? I got to thinking about that because everybody's trying to figure out, well, who's going to win? Which team has the skills to win out? Or in a way, which is the better team, and is in that sense, I suppose, a little more important.

Now imagine if you did that on your daily choices. What are the things I have to do today? Imagine listing those things out on a bracket and making sure that you accomplish what's most important. Imagine that, well, if I had to do these jobs around the house, I could list those out and then I've got to accomplish what's most important. What are the things I want to get done this week? Could we put a question that would be relevant in our lives and maybe run it through the bracket process, so that we could come up with the thing that is the winner, that is most important? Kind of identifying what's the best in that category. Would that be something that would help us? I think in some ways, it could. It could help us.

In fact, as I was thinking about this, I kind of let my mind run away with me a little bit, I remembered a proverb. It's over in Proverbs chapter 19, and over in verse 21. Here's what it says: "There are many plans in a man's heart, nevertheless the Lord's counsel – that will stand" (Proverbs 19:21). Now I know a lot of people would like God's direction when it comes to their bracket, but if we turn that around and think about this bracket-ology when it comes to our life, let's be sure we're getting God's counsel and His advice as we fill out our life's bracket.

That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.