The fact
that we, as humans, have free will should cause us to pause and reflect on how
God allows us to be guided. God allows
us to stray, then get in trouble and then adjust to get straightened out. It happens in small ways and in big ways.
Christmas
is a season where we can over-book ourselves and are prone to having accidents
and losing things. When that happens we reflect and slow down. Our free will
allows us to do too much and it allows us to recognize the danger; then our
free will allows us to stop doing too much. We are built to be self-supervised.
This is using our free will in small ways.
We used
our free will to build a life for ourselves and we made hundreds of decisions
to get us where we are. We’ve made our decisions on identifying our talents and
passions, selecting an occupation, working hard or smart or both, being our
best, marriage, children, where to live, paying our bills, making investments,
using our time and honoring our commitments.
This is using your free will in big ways.
Our
belief in Divine Guidance tells us that God provides unless we stop Him. When a door closes, another opens. We are
given what we need. Life can teach us all of this if we let it. Our personal conversations with God can occur
whenever we ask for them.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
This is unjustifiably personal since NTL Conservative is one e-contact that's never asked me for money, but since you've asked...I *did* pray about why things that had been paying quite well had suddenly stopped paying at all...oh, during the first year after my husband died anyway. And a thought, not necessarily what people call a Vision but I don't normally think in pictures, came to my mind. It was the image of a sick patient trying to press the button for the nurse but not being able to use his/her hands. I understood it to mean that the church is the living Body of Christ. When Christians fail to support one another's ventures, then Christians don't prosper in spite of their good honest work.
ReplyDeleteI am still not living in prosperity.
I am still offering good honest work...in real life, at my Blogspot, and at Fiverr. The Blogspot is primarily about books and also displays some samples of things I've written for payment, from informative leaflets for health clinics through short stories, song parodies, and Amazon product reviews. Fiverr is an apparently legitimate "agency" site that transfers money between clients and writers-for-hire. I use the same screen name everywhere and am easy to find online.