I re-read my last post and yep it sounded good. But in the gut of me I know that I'm not really done with this issue. There is a question nagging me. It goes something like this "Why doesn't God just let us choose what we want?" Hmmm It seems to me that many people do. Maybe that's not really what's happening but it seems like it to me. Maybe that's because there is something in me that just WANTS to be the decision maker, the doer of things, the chooser.
This is something I've got to continue to work on some more. How is it that when God does such good stuff for us we still are not content to just let him do these good things. I can look back over our history of about the last 15-18 years and see where God did these good things - Where we messed some things up and I can't deny that he seems to do a better job than me/us and still I wonder why doesn't he just let me/us make our own choices. (I say us but Larry doesn't seem to have this problem like I do.) In all these good things that God did there was no choosing on our part. OK - there is choosing in small things but I'm talking about big things and really he does do a lot of choosing of the small things too come to think of it.
My suspicion is that it has to do with the Lordship of Christ in one's life. I feel like I've come a long way in becoming TRULY reconciled to the Father through Christ but I think I'm coming up against another God created wall that I'm going to have to deal with.
OK, Lord, lets do it.
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I love this blog, especially the first paragraph. you're so honest. there's the same kind of question always in the back of my mind too!
ReplyDeleteIt'll be exciting to see where the Lord takes you from here and how he gets you there.
God does let us do the choosing. He sets up the events. We choose. I think that is pretty simple.
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