This morning I woke up thinking quite a bit about life and love. Sorry ladies, but I have the best husband in the world. No arguments on this subject will be accepted. I know that he will always be there for me...I can make him so mad sometimes, but he'll still hold me in the middle of it if he thinks it will make it better.
As hard as it is for me to comprehend, the overwhelming love that my husband and I share pale in comparison to the love that God has for each one of us.
We all have our moments when we question God. After all, we are only human. Is He really there? Can He really love me even after all that I've done wrong...after all the times that I've gotten so angry at Him telling me simply to "wait"? These difficult questions, as hard as it is to believe and comprehend, have a simple answer. "Yes." God's will is for us to be happy, to have what our hearts desire, to live a full life.
I read a book a few years back that was titled "Blink" by Ted Dekker. While it was a fictional story, it forever changed the way that I view the choices that we make. In the first few chapters we meet the main characters. A man and a woman...of course...who were meant to be together. These 2 people who are from total different ways of life meet and God shows the man in just a "Blink" the consequences of the actions he will take. For example they were trapped in the back of a building and he sees what will happen and the consequences he will face if he chooses to go left and out the back compared to if he goes right and out the side.
I know that God sees from beginning to end. He is the Alpha and Omega. I don't question that at all. It is, after all, in the Bible. But think about this. God gave us free will. The freedom to choose. So many people out there believe that no matter what happens, it was God's will. It was God's will for children to be hit by a train and killed. It was God's will for such and such to die of lung cancer. After all God knew it would happen so He could have prevented it, right? And if He didn't, then He planned for it to happen to make us stronger.
We each have a choice to choose which way we will go. I believe that God sees from the beginning and to the end of EVERY choice we could ever make. If I choose to walk a path of crime, my ending will be different from the life I could have had if I had chosen to follow God. If I choose to stay home from church one Sunday, and I miss a life changing message where God reveals something to me, that wasn't God's will, it was me making a bad choice. We can choose to walk where God wants us to walk and live a life where we are changed from glory to glory...or we can choose to walk down a different path and live a life of sickness and despair. But whatever we choose, God knows the outcome.
The children who were hit by the train not far from my home recently. Some have told me that they believe it was God's will. That doesn't make sense to me. The mother was on the phone. She pulled onto the train tracks when she shouldn't have. She wasn't paying attention...to anything apparently other than her phone call...would she have heard God if He had tried to get her to stop? Maybe He tried to stop her at a red light and she ran it in a rush to get home or to get to dinner. Maybe He tried to delay her at work or at the daycare and she ignored that too.
It is not God's will for us to suffer. We go through things as a result of our choices in the past. We reap what we sow whether it's blessing or destruction. God has a perfect will for our lives, but we are human. The line doesn't move, we do. Sometimes we sway out of line, sometimes we fall out of line, sometimes we jump as hard as we can away from the line. I'm so glad that we are always welcomed back.
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