It is a beautiful day out today and I was driving on the hwy with my music just about full blast (thank you Ford for our Shaker 500 in the Mustang) listening to Peter Furler singing “I’m Alive, I’m on Fire” and so on. I got to thinking a bit about our situation…and what situation you ask? Well…if you don’t know, you are not on my facebook page LOL.
In the last month we have applied, and been offered a caretaking job in Hope, applied and didn’t get a manager/caretaking job in Comox (we were runner up though), and looked, and promised a cute little cottage outside of Aldergrove. Everything fell through, some by our own decision and some by other people’s decisions. Also with all this, dealing with the tenants downstairs who have been driving us bonkers in the last year. Today, we are staying where we are, Doug has a new job (but not sure if we will take it), and the tenants downstairs are moving. All in all, it is a good day, today. It wasn’t a good day last week though, so because of that, we are running away to Mukilteo, Washington for 2 nights and getting a change in scenery…granted not much different as we are only driving 2 hours south LOL.
So here is my “What if” scenario…we are walking along a path…it’s a normal, not too stressful path and we come to a fork in the road. One way is the normal, not too stressful path and the other way is a new path. The new path isn’t really stressful either, but it’s new. New faces and new scenery. We stand there at the fork and pray…”God which way should I go”. We don’t do any thinking ourselves, just wait for God to answer. We stand there…waiting and waiting…we don’t hear anything. So there we stand, just waiting for God to answer. Heaven forbid should we actually make a decision on our own.
So next scenario…there is Adam and Eve standing in the Garden…minding their own business and enjoying life. Nothing new is going on, but there stands a tree…a tree that God said “don’t eat the fruit”. Along comes a sneaky little (or big) snake and convinces them to eat the fruit. In this case, God spoke and said don’t, but they did anyway. Life changed a lot from that point on, but God helped by sending Jesus later on. But the point is, God could have not put the tree there, and then we wouldn’t have had the choice, but he did put it there and that means God has given us choices while living on this earth. If he didn’t want us to choose for ourselves, then why put the tree there in the first place.
So back to the first scenario…there we stand at the path waiting for God to choose for us, because even though God has given us the choice, we want someone else to do the choosing for us because we are too lazy to think for ourselves. Maybe…if we decide ourselves, along with the help of God, he will make whatever decision we make, work. Maybe choosing one way or the other doesn’t make much difference to the end outcome because God will walk with us and help us through whatever path we choose. Maybe, he wants us to think for ourselves just a little and stop using him has a scapegoat for decisions (right or wrong). Maybe both paths are equally filled with fun and disappointments and he will rejoice and cry with us in each situation.
What if…