October 7, 2004

[Rev. Doc]

Our Will Or God's?

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."
Romans 12:2

As good Christians should, most of us would be firm in the conviction that more than anything we want to do the will of God. However, so many times when it appears His will does not coincide with our own we will more often than not take the wrong fork in the road, the path of our own choosing.

Walter Knight told of an old Scottish woman who went from home to home across the countryside selling thread, buttons, and shoestrings. When she came to an unmarked crossroad, she would toss a stick into the air and go in the direction the stick pointed when it landed.

One day, however, she was seen tossing the stick up several times. "Why do you toss the stick more than once?" someone asked. "Because," replied the woman, "it keeps pointing to the left, and I want to take the road on the right." She then dutifully kept throwing the stick into the air until it pointed the way she wanted to go!

Prayer: Ask the Lord to make His will clear to you, then follow it.

"Heavier-than-air flight is both impossible and contrary to the will of God."
~Bishop Wright, father of Orville and Wilber