So, here I am. Weeks from my new resolve to post more on my blog... and my first blog. Oh well...
I guess that life sometimes just kind of does a gang tackle on you - the affects of which I am presently feeling. I am currently studying for a mid-term exam in Theology and find myself incredibly distracted by the million other things going on. I know, you are all saying welcome to life, but I am completely drained!
I have recently made a decision that I am no longer going to attempt to divine from the cosmos what I "feel" God calling me to do... God has redeemed me, I have been given a sanctified reasoning and have concluded that it is reasonable, in light of Christ's commands to share the Gospel, for me to give my whole life to this endeavor.
For about two years ago I have, like so many in our culture, deferred to the cliche of stating that God is "calling" me to this or that... We get so caught up in this belief that we should know the specific plan that God has for our lives when in reality He does not want that at all. No... He wants us to know that HE KNOWS the plan for our life. I submit that for us to desire this knowledge takes us back the the very root of the Fall.
The character of righteousness in Adam and Eve was not that they knew what God knew - that they did good and spurned evil - NO, it was that they found sufficiency in what God gave them and what He gave them to know. The character that defined the rebellion - rebellion in general maybe - is precisely the desire to know more, the desire to have the knowledge of God and be LIKE Him.
May we not claim of God something that is not true...
May we experience freedom in the sufficiency ofChrist and what he has given us...
Let us return to a happy rest in the Providence of the Living God!
