7th Grade Quote

A "wise" teacher of mine once told my seventh grade class, "There are only two things that you have to do in life, be born, and die. Everything else you do in life is up to you." Those words didn't mean much to me for a long time. All I cared about at that time in my life was if I had air in the tires of my BMX bike and if my crush looked at me during class. Now that I have lived some life I have discovered some things about these words of wisdom. They are totally and completely... Wrong!!!

I've been reading God Built by Steve Farrar. It's a look at Joseph, his life and the path God allowed him to travel in order to be where God wanted him, with the character God needed from him, and the tools Joseph needed to have in order to accomplish what God wanted. So I start to think about some things. Is birth and death the only absolutes in life? Is that the only sure thing prescribed for us to do.

I believe that God has some things that he would like us to do. I know that he has some specific plans that he would like us to follow through with, using some specific skill sets that he has developed in us, through some specific events that he's ordained. Birth... yes, very necessary. Death... also a condition that runs in all our families. What else? Is all of the above necessary? I don't feel that God will force us to do anything, but we must choose obedience or diobedience.

So to go along with the idea of editing from my last post I've made a correction.

"There are three things that we have to do in life, be born, die, and choose whether or not to obey Gods leading in our lives, everything else we do in life will be the flowing result of what we choose to do."
The best part of this ablosute, is that we serve a God of grace and mercy that gives us opportunity after opportunity to choose him.