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Originally Posted by Nell
I remember reading someone’s comment along this line, it might have been OBW. He said something like: God has given us a free will to choose how to live our lives, make decisions, etc.
That helped me. Looking back, I can see how true it is.
Is it about finding out what he wants us to do, or more about us living a godly life and choosing him in the small things? Is it about him giving us choices in big and small things...learning how important it is that he gave us freedom to choose. Every time we ask him what he wants us to do, we choose him.
Looking back, trying to remember decisions I’ve made when I was in a fog and looking for answers that, in my mind, never came...today...I can’t remember a single one. At the time, answers...or lack of answers were consuming me. I wish I could tell you how I got from there to here. All I can say is that today, I just talk to him. I live my life and talk things over with him like he’s my best friend. I used to think he was like a puppet master...off somewhere making me dance on the end of strings. I now know that’s not who he is. Paul prayed “...that I may know him...”. Is this how we “get to know” him? Is this how we learn to “walk by faith”? I think maybe it is.
Maybe the Book of Yogi is pretty much right: When you come to a fork in the road...take it. (Sorry.)
Hope this helps...
Nell
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Good points in there.
I believe that the Lord loves when we include Him in all of our decisions, even though it seems that He does not answer as we would like. In the process of our praying and asking the Lord, our decisions are already altered. Eg. who agonizes in prayer whether they should beat up their neighbor, and steal his money?
In the end, it is we who live our life. Life is full of decisions. Many times I was forced to make old-fashioned checklists, weighing pros and cons, talking to friends, and going slow so as not to be making impulsive choices.
Many Christians put out "fleeces" hoping to get answers, but that seemed kind of superstitious to me, but it did work in the old Bible story.
Here's an irony in our following the Lord. Some of the worst "apparent" disasters in my life were predicated by directions the Lord gave to me. How can this be? Didn't He lead me to the LC's? Yet that caused quite a few problems for me. (Many blessings too!) Yet I would never second-guess His direction in my life because only He knows the future. What seems bad looking back could have been far worse had I not obeyed Him. No decision brings only "blessing." Every course in life has dangers. Eg. Think about those who have regretted their decision about who they married only to create far worse disasters via divorce.