Someone has said, "You can get so sweet you're sticky." I say, "You can get so spiritual you're sickening." One area in which this nauseating spirit is seen is with Christian choices. There are saints who believe God is to make all the choices in their life. But if you check them out, they mean the big ones. They decide on the everyday, what they call, little ones. Also, they do the selecting on what is big and what is little. But in scripture, you'll find God leaves most of the choices in life up to us; the only qualifying condition being that it is within the Will of God.
1. When Moses was giving instruction to some young ladies concerning one of the most important of all life's choices, marriage, he said "This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry." And Paul admonishes the widows in the Corinthian church, "She is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." God gives us a lot of elbowroom in life, does He not?
2. The old divines used to illustrate our liberty in life this way: On board a ship, one can pretty well do as they choose, except enter the restricted areas, which are plainly posted for all to see. God made us with different temperaments; our tastes, likes and dislikes are not all the same. We each have our own favorite colors, foods, clothing, entertainment, etc. The Lord leaves the choice to us on all these matters, unless strictly forbidden in His Word. My wife asks me often when shopping "Which shall I choose?" My usual answer is "Which do you want?"
3. Does not God say, in principal, to each of His surrendered Spirit-filled children, as Jonathan's armour bearer said to him, "Do all that is in thine heart." What better person to make his or her own choices than a man or woman that is habitually in the Bible, continually in prayer, and desiring nothing but to please God! I have a saying in the front of my Bible I picked up from one of the authors I read after: "When Christ has His way with you, you can have your way with Him."
Enjoy life; far too many are only enduring it.
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