Last week, my daughter Roxy-Leigh, passed her drivers licence.
Leigh-Ann and I had been praying that all would go well and by God’s grace she passed first time.
At first I was elated that she had achieved this milestone, but the more I began to think about the significance of it, the more my joy turned to quiet concern. Now she would be out on the roads on her own and pictures of breakdowns and accidents rolled across my mind.
Then one morning in my quiet time, it suddenly dawned on me what God must go through with us human beings. He created us with the ability to make choices. More importantly, it’s the only thing we really own – our free will. And although we own it by God’s grace, it does put us in a position of tremendous power mainly because we can choose to love God or not.
Scary!
Then I began to realise that if I wanted to ban Roxy from driving because of my fears, how very soon she would start to despise me. Because I would have taken away her God-given ability to make her own decisions!
So after some time I read Daniel 2:20-21 and realised that I needed to trust God, not only with Roxy, but with every part of my life. So I prayed, not for the first time, and gave my will over to God. Suddenly I felt free, as though a great weight had lifted from my shoulders.
Awesome!
Are you struggling with choices, perhaps a work or family issue - whatever?
My prayer is that you will first choose God’s love and as Scripture says - seek first His Kingdom and all these things will be given to you as well, (Luke 12:29-31).
Have you got a story about a choice you made that will encourage someone? Or any other comment? Click on comments. Type in your comment. If you don’t have a Blogger Id just click on ‘anonymous’. Go on do it!
Leigh-Ann and I had been praying that all would go well and by God’s grace she passed first time.
At first I was elated that she had achieved this milestone, but the more I began to think about the significance of it, the more my joy turned to quiet concern. Now she would be out on the roads on her own and pictures of breakdowns and accidents rolled across my mind.
Then one morning in my quiet time, it suddenly dawned on me what God must go through with us human beings. He created us with the ability to make choices. More importantly, it’s the only thing we really own – our free will. And although we own it by God’s grace, it does put us in a position of tremendous power mainly because we can choose to love God or not.
Scary!
Then I began to realise that if I wanted to ban Roxy from driving because of my fears, how very soon she would start to despise me. Because I would have taken away her God-given ability to make her own decisions!
So after some time I read Daniel 2:20-21 and realised that I needed to trust God, not only with Roxy, but with every part of my life. So I prayed, not for the first time, and gave my will over to God. Suddenly I felt free, as though a great weight had lifted from my shoulders.
Awesome!
Are you struggling with choices, perhaps a work or family issue - whatever?
My prayer is that you will first choose God’s love and as Scripture says - seek first His Kingdom and all these things will be given to you as well, (Luke 12:29-31).
Have you got a story about a choice you made that will encourage someone? Or any other comment? Click on comments. Type in your comment. If you don’t have a Blogger Id just click on ‘anonymous’. Go on do it!
2 comments:
It's great to know that God has given us freedom of choice and that we can choose our own actions, but on the flip side of the coin its also wonderful that He is always there to help us!
And doesn't he just!!!!
Just like a good parent He knows the best way to allow us to choose but is there to wipe the tears and share the joy!
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