I have delved into history quite a lot lately. I have always found it interesting...people make choices, commit acts, and there it is...history, whether we want to make it or not doesn't matter. It's simply a recalling of events and events happen by our choices.
What is startling to me is my own history and the one I'm making daily.
Part of my history was determined by the choices of others. Now my choices are determining the history others will carry.
The startling part of that is I have never fully appreciated the history that was handed to me until recently. It has been a struggle to accept it as ordered by Him, Him putting me right where He wanted me. Now, however, looking back and seeing the pieces fit, I'm often amazed by how He laid the plans out and consummated them. I can see the jigsaw starting to form an actual picture.
The other startling part is, of course, my own history making...or simply my choices I make that affect everyone around me. This startles me in a much less exciting way, for the other history that was bestowed on me I had no say in, but this one is all about what I will do. Mind you, I am a terribly imperfect person who struggles constantly. That is where my concern lies. In me. I am capable of creating messes so having such power to affect others' lives leaves me feeling a little cowardly...like I would prefer He just made me robotic so all would be safe and I would simply follow protocol. But no He created me this way (all of us, of course, but I'm the one I have to worry about!)...this thinking, struggling, battling, choosing, sometimes not-so-determined person. I hope my faith in Him is stronger than my concern in me for that is my only rescue.
The simplest of faith in Him brings even the weakest person through difficulties. Faith being the "substance of things hoped for" and "the evidence of things not seen" will determine the choices made, the action taken...the history of a person.
Deuteronomy 30:19--"...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."
"The simplest of faith in Him brings even the weakest person through difficulties." WOW....what a powerful statement Angel. So often I run across people who think that my faith is so big and that they might as well not even make an effort because they fear their faith will never be as strong as mine. But they don't see me stumble.....they don't see me constantly humbled daily because of mistakes, sin.......I am nothing.....it's simply that HE"S ALL I HAVE AND I "HAVE" TO CLING TO HIM otherwise I will be a goner. It only takes a small amount of faith to begin the journey homeward, heavenward and it IS within each of us to find this faith, small at first as it may be.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post. Powerful Angel, powerful.