Recently I have been watching Touched by an Angel, it is one of my favorite TV shows. Anyway in one of the episodes Monica the angel is a wedding planner and she is organizing this wonderful romantic wedding but she feels like she forgot something and she can't figure out what it is. While she is trying to figure out what she forgot, the wedding is almost called off. So she needs to pray to see what to do next. While she is praying she realizes that what she missed was inviting God to the wedding and to the celebration.
This really stuck with me. It is so easy to kneel down and pray and ask for forgiveness, to ask for help, to thank God for things. But I don't ever remember asking God specifically to take part in my life. God gave us a wonderful gift called free agency that he wants us to use. This is a strong, powerful gift; so powerful that sometimes God can't help us because our free agency keeps him away. If we don't allow him to help, he won't. Not that he can't help; he won't, because that would be against our free agency. I believe that free agency is a much more powerful tool in our life that I ever thought it is. So many times I expected God to do miracles to help me with out even allowing him to do so. So last night I decided to specifically invite him into my life. To help me make decisions that need to be made, to cry with me when I need a shoulder to cry on, and to laugh with me when I need someone to laugh with. I gave him permission last night to participate in my life as much as he can.
It's interesting, because honestly I always asked for his advice in things, and as I said I alway asked for his blessing on my life, but never ever have I invited him to participate fully with me in my life. Anyway it is something to think about and it will be a continuing learning process for me. I just wanted to share this, so maybe you will think about it too.
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