So, our Rachel is currently into many "eenie, meenie, miney, moe" decisions in the day--which shoes, which books, which bite of food to take, which towel to take back to the bathroom first, etc.
And I have been having various conversations with friends about discernment on life decisions and the sovereignty of God in our plans and decisions.
And I can't help but feel these two things, Rachel's "decision-making" and grown-up-faith-based "decision-making" do overlap a bit! Now, any major theologians who read this blog might just need to stop reading now. This is not a treatise. Rather, a mother's moment of thinking that in light of the biggest purposes of God, he doesn't mind that we are "eenie, meenie, miney, moe-ing" it a bit. If we are thoughtful to incorporate other sound parts of Christian living into our lives (bible study, prayer, fellowship, good friends, good community, honest self-searching, honest openness to the Spirit), then sometimes we need to relax a bit about some of the "arbitrary" decisions.
And obviously, on a deeper, often more difficult level, there are times when we can't and don't know why things aren't working in the way we wish/earnestly pray that they would-- this is a quality of "arbitrary" that goes back to the fall, to the beginning of a world where humans chose according to our wills and needs and desires and didn't care for ourselves or the world as God intended. And sadly the righteous and unrighteous are now victim to the seemingly "arbitrary" nature of the fall's consequences.
I'm not accusing God of playing "eenie, meenie, miney, moe" with our circumstances or our suffering. Ultimately, I think his answer to that issue is that he is with us--in all circumstances, in all suffering.
But this analogy is more related to our decision-making. Like in Rachel's "eenie-meenie-miney-moe", there are decisions that are almost ridiculous in the nature of their importance and there are some more substantial decisions where a little bit of sense of humor (light-heartedness) may be the better way to choose a relatively equal merit decision.
And I have been having various conversations with friends about discernment on life decisions and the sovereignty of God in our plans and decisions.
And I can't help but feel these two things, Rachel's "decision-making" and grown-up-faith-based "decision-making" do overlap a bit! Now, any major theologians who read this blog might just need to stop reading now. This is not a treatise. Rather, a mother's moment of thinking that in light of the biggest purposes of God, he doesn't mind that we are "eenie, meenie, miney, moe-ing" it a bit. If we are thoughtful to incorporate other sound parts of Christian living into our lives (bible study, prayer, fellowship, good friends, good community, honest self-searching, honest openness to the Spirit), then sometimes we need to relax a bit about some of the "arbitrary" decisions.
And obviously, on a deeper, often more difficult level, there are times when we can't and don't know why things aren't working in the way we wish/earnestly pray that they would-- this is a quality of "arbitrary" that goes back to the fall, to the beginning of a world where humans chose according to our wills and needs and desires and didn't care for ourselves or the world as God intended. And sadly the righteous and unrighteous are now victim to the seemingly "arbitrary" nature of the fall's consequences.
I'm not accusing God of playing "eenie, meenie, miney, moe" with our circumstances or our suffering. Ultimately, I think his answer to that issue is that he is with us--in all circumstances, in all suffering.
But this analogy is more related to our decision-making. Like in Rachel's "eenie-meenie-miney-moe", there are decisions that are almost ridiculous in the nature of their importance and there are some more substantial decisions where a little bit of sense of humor (light-heartedness) may be the better way to choose a relatively equal merit decision.
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