What are your plans for today? What are your plans for the future? What would you do if someone threw a big, unexpected, and unwanted kink in them? What if God did?
The real question is: who's actually in charge here, #1 or God? If God's in charge, kinks in plans don't exist, because letting him lead means things are always going according to plan. Well, that's not an easy thing to let happen no matter where we are in our spiritual journey and sometimes when God makes his plan for us felt in a big way that we aren't anticipating, we try to run the other way. The common Christian does this in all sorts of ways in his or her daily life mostly in small rejections that accumulate to actually be big rejections. Here on the streets of New York, God has chosen to make big changes in the lives of many people who don't even profess belief in him, and they don't have the option of an easy rejection. When God gives them a life, any decision they make about it is consequently life or death.
The problem is, that just like we fail so many times to realize what God is offering to us is good and in fact from him, so many of these young women who come to us are unable or unwilling to recognize what God is giving them. An easy life? Certainly not, but a LIFE it certainly is. When a young mother comes into our center with a child or strolls her toddler into Dr. Emily's with her, the disconnect between the life of her unborn child and the life of her born child almost leaves us speechless. We don't see mothers who want any harm to come to their child, but they will not hesitate to abort the one in them? Prayers, prayers, prayers. It seems there would be few works of God more obvious than the creation of a new life. But if we become accustomed to rejecting his gifts in small ways, we can begin to reject them in large ways too. Here is where we can take heed for our own lives.
No comments:
Post a Comment