He Wills as I Will

Today I was contemplating when I was flying home from D.C. a couple of weekends ago. I remember how gloomy the weather was all weekend, but on both flights, as we flew above the clouds the sun shone so bright and so magnificent that I was mesmerised by it. I love flying, it is terrifying to me as well as magnificent. Whenever we go above the clouds I smile and talk with God and just praise Him for what He has created. The beauty above the ground is amazing, yet what is also amazing is how He has fashioned mankind to make flying machines. Many view that as if they are becoming gods, and I just laugh at them because God knew how to do it all along while it took us over 3000 years to figure that out. That's what so cool about God in a way, is that He allows US to create. He has created and fashioned things already such as a field, but it is the farmer that plants and harvest the field to create food. I can certainly see God finding joy in us in that way. We are glorifying Him in the most natural sense of our being, which is being creative, thinking, feeling, making, organizing, researching, discovering, and the list goes on. As I type out this blog I am using my God-given ability to use my hands, to think, to contemplate these things. I also have the leisure and let us not forget the freedom to do such things as these given by God's grace and will by the men who willed and died for freedom for this country 200 years ago.

The will of our Creator is so magnificent and so gracious that He has willed us to will as well. A bit of a tongue twister isn't it? Probably a confusing concept as well. Apparently my reading has spoken through because this completely relates to Chapter 6 of Elisabeth Elliot's book, Discipline the Glad Surrender. Let me just quote from page 35 from the first fresh paragraph...

"We have said that Christian discipline is one's wholehearted yes to the call of God. It is of the highest importance that we understand the necessity of two wills, the one created by the other and ordained free, both operating in accord. If we forget that there are two and dwell only on the sovereign will of God, we will abdicate our responsibility and lapse into the fatalism of Islam, which leaves all to the inscrutable and unknowable. If, on the other hand, we forget the sovereignty of God and see ourselves as independent, we will arrogate to ourselves all responsibility and leave God out of it--in other words, we make ourselves God. In both cases we fail to do His will, and the result is the forfeiting of our joy and freedom."

The irony of this is that I was planning on blogging about something else. ha! ha! That is what I love about this; is being able to see the Holy Spirit speak through me. There is no reason for Him to speak through me, I am no better than anyone else, yet He chooses to, how cool is that? God does not have to use me and yet He does. What a glorious God we serve! One cannot understand this concept of Grace until they realize how wretched they really are. May God humble you and expose the sin in your life so you can be freed from the bondage of sin. I tell you I am free, but I forget that I am many times. It is only by God's will that He has shown grace to my wretched being and by my will to accept that reality in my life. By accepting this reality on a day to day basis I can discover how awesome our Creator truly is. What a wonderful Love that I have, nothing can compare to this. :-)

God bless!

In Christ,

Amber