September 24, 2008
Hard Lessons & The Right to Sin?
It is SO hard to sit back and watch someone you love choose sin.....especially when you know and see that it may be the worst possible thing for them. I am being grown and stretched in this very area......and it is oh so hard to sit back and watch and wait on the Lord as events unfold. God has not so gently reminded me that people were given free will to choose.....a lot of the time that is the freedom to choose WRONG!!! I just have to keep tucked back in my pocket that God's WILL is always better than my WAY! It was God's will that we have choice. It is not God's will that people sin.....but He sure knows how to use those opportunities way better than I could ever have dreamed of. I think God's permissive will allows for an individual to go through a lot....He allows for a lot of situations to set us up so the only choice ultimately will be to look up and turn to Him once all is said and done. I cannot "grow" someone in the Lord any faster than God has already planned for them and their walk.....as much as I'd like to try to. God is clearly pointing out to me to open up my love walk in ways I never even dreamed I could....to truly love people as He does. I am having to learn this because it DOES NOT COME NATURALLY to man!! There's that Christian saying.....I use it a lot too...........less of me and more of you......God even showed me today in prayer that even this hasn't got it just right and is somewhat still man centered.....He clearly said.....none of me, Lord....ALL OF YOU! WOW and OH MY!!! All of you Lord....every single bit. I feel like I've been such a spiritual baby in my love walk.....I thought I was "pretty good" at it.....God is really showing me that I have not even scratched the surface yet......I am very humbled that He is willing to teach me even more and take me deeper in this area. Can you ever really have too deep of a love walk? There are BOMBS going off all around me in my sphere of influence and family and this is where He wants my focus.....wow wow wow! Firstly He wants me to know His love totally for myself.....and that I can TRUST that His love for me will indeed work all these things out! Then He wants me to BE love to these people....not just show love....but BE it! Living, breathing love....poured out into these situations.....in every action, every thought, every word, every moment. Lord thank you for first loving me so that I may love others.
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