some food for thought...
Perhaps it's the new season, and the freedom that comes with this season, that i have decided that im going to keep track of whats going on with me and God and just life. I feel as if change is coming my way, so therefore i should be able to look and see what new season is headed my way. Im excited for change!
Lately there have been people on my heart, who i feel have "need" or who are searching, or triying to figure their lives out, without any help. For these people who are in need or tring to figure life out, icant help but think of choices and decisions that we've all made. I mean what causes us to want to drink? Is it just the custom to have fun? Or is there something deeper that compels us? What makes someone question their faith, and all that we have forever known and valued? And all that i can seem to gather is sin.. In Genesisi it talks about God making the world PERFECT, and then the trickery came, and sin entered the world and mankind became sinful. Human nature was born with sin. Now i dont believe that we should always just fall back on old "Well it's all sins fault.." but to be fair to "sins" behalf, we are given free will, and with every choice that we make comes a with a consequence, good or bad. There are sometimes when i look at lives around me, or lives i hear about, and i think what possibly went through them at the moment they decided to do whatever they did.. was there anything keeping them back? But at 16 i think we all want some "independence", thefore blowing off an authoritative figure doesnt mtter. But why are we questiong or blowing off an authoriitative figure? to get a response?
I know im asking tons of questions, but im just thinking..
Even after asking all of these questions, i keep coming back to another question.. Why the heck did God give us free will? Why couldnt there be only one way to do something? Why cant God just point all the choices that are ahead, and if they will give an good consuquence in the end or a bad one? Why couldnt there be only black and white, not any grey areas/?? I think that God gave us freewill in hopes that we will come away from a situation learning from a mistake we made, or some understanding. Perhaps if we didnt have freewill we'd be a mindless society (in a way) and we would never learn lessons for our selfs and decided what values we have or who we are.
Anyways just some food for thought....
dani
some good reads this week: The God who speaks blog (its on my blog here), steenies philosphy on life.. so good!
Some good tunes: Coldplay (fix you, and my message), Jakc Johnson, hmm and some others
posted by Dani at 12:14 AM
1 Comments:
ya that is a lot of questions :P i was thinking about "only one way to do things, only black and white" and ya.. i think that life would be soo boring without the "grey" in life. we need to experience, make mistakes, make desicions.. learn. and i'm glad despite all the brokenness in the world that we have that free will. God doesn't want us to be controlled. without the bad, the good isn't as enjoyable. we need to see both sides and choose for ourselves. God honors those who see whats out there, and still run to Him for what they need. we all grow and learn from mistakes.. we come out stronger. and without sin, there would be no grace. if we were perfect, we wouldn't need God. i think sin is here so that people would realise that we NEED Gods grace everyday. haha wow i might as well just write a book here.. so ya i think thats about it. life would be boring without grey. peace out dani. call me this week love you
~schroeder
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