Friday, June 19, 2020
Is This Our Road?
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Ephesians 5:17
So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Words of Grace For Today
The myriad of choices that we make each day, determine what choices come our way for the rest of our day, and years.
Sometimes this is remarkably clear.
If we choose to marry someone we have fallen in love with, with no regard for what kind of a person they are, there may be hell to pay, especially if they are not a kind person.
If, on the other hand, you choose to marry someone you have not fallen in love with, even if they are a kind person, you may certainly not be. For there are good motives to marry not for love, though there are many more evil motives.
Who you marry, or choose to live with, makes and breaks all sorts of future options. There is not much good in the greed, jealousy, and pride that drives one’s spouse to abuse you for all you’ve got to give.
If you choose to lie, cheat, and break others of hope in order to get ahead, no matter the cost to others, your choices will sooner than later be hemmed in by the record you make for yourself. With little to no good choices left you feel obliged to continue to find your own way toward a future that ruins all who it will touch.
Sometimes this is remarkably clear.
More often it simply is not clear at all. In those times as we attempt to move toward a future that offers life to some, if not many, or maybe just one’s own greedy self, we need some guidance.
That is all foolishness, for God keeps His eyes on all that we think, say and do.
You can also say God keeps Her eyes on all that we think, say and do. We cannot apply gender to God, though our speech limitations often lead us to do exactly that. The foolishness is to think our limitations determine God’s being! Blimey foolishness!
If we are so inspired by the Holy Spirit to be righteous beyond normal days, and we seek a choice in each fork in our roads, that will bring life to people, all people, even if it costs us in the process, then …
Then where does one turn to find such abnormal choices forward?
One can find all sorts of supposed wisdom, how to make life better for oneself and a few others. One can find all sorts of supposed wisdom, how to make oneself better.
That is all foolishness.
Where can one turn to find the purpose of life fulfilled in one’s choices, so that the Will of God through oneself, if it be so granted by God, will be pursued?
Where does one turn to find truth and real wisdom, instead of foolishness?
Where else can one turn, than to God? And where does one find God, other than in the story of Jesus?
This we trust, that the Holy Spirit will guide us, and we will not be led astray. We will not find ourselves doing what is illegal, nor what is plain stupid. We will not need to do what is foolish by any standard or meaning of the word, like blatantly flaunt a constitution that governs our ways and means.
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
God help those who continue to walk down ways that are foolish.
God help us as we choose today what forks we will follow, God help us and those we love.
May they be all of God’s creatures, even our enemies.