Our process. Our life story…..

I believe we are well versed in knowing all is a plan of God. From birth, salvation, death. Where we work and where we live. These are well known verses, so I know you can turn to them quickly (Is 46: 11; Ps 139: 16; Acts 17: 26 (for those who don’t know)). But today I want to look at things not from a spiritual perspective, but from our normal, human emotional perspective. Hence, the title of this snl- Our process, our life story. So, if you will, let’s look at it from a human perspective, knowing full well, all is decreed. Perhaps our life story, our process, can be stated that life starts (no, not at 40) when we become independent from familial control. Until we are under the tutelage of our parents or whomever, our life process, goes, at the beck and call of those over us. But once we become independent, we start our life story with all the decisions we make. A situation arises; pick any area of your life- work, friends, family, church; an issue arises, and you have no control of the situation. The choices you then make, put you on the road of accountability for the decision you made. I recently reflected on how I, not in willful ways, actually ended up, extending the difficulty to people in their life path. And I was reminded, a person’s path in their life, depends not only on their choices and decisions, but all bad choices or bad decisions that influence their life. It is your life process that we go through hardship caused by others to ourselves. Yet, it is also your life process, that you experience nice things given to you. Our life process must include we do good, we do bad, good is done to us, bad is done to us. And all these experiences, is our process, our life story. As I reflected on this, it made me want/wish/feel that all I want to do is to be a very positive influence in someone else’s life story. I do not want to be a part of their failure. I just always want to be the “good thing” in their life. But unfortunately, that is not always the case. Sometimes we knowingly or unwittingly, are actually the extension of someone’s difficulty, even if we can’t see it at the time. We can be so driven, so motivated, that we can overlook of what we actually are doing, until sometime later down the track, when we see, what we have done. And yet, this process in turn, leads to other things that we will do, which we would never have done, if the initial process, had not been. Simplified; I caused you extension of hardship; I will be the extension of your provision. So, these emotions, and actions, are part of our life process. A recent message; courtship. What is the life process in courtship? We like someone. We are scared to ask them out. We don’t ask them out as we are scared of rejection. We miss out on true love, through fear of rejection. We lose. Wrong choice. Our process. On the other hand, we like a person, we get the courage one day, to ask them out- they say yes, we live happily ever after. So, here, our life story changes, due to the decision of asking a person out. So, whether something is done to you, good or bad, it’s your life story. Whether you do something, or fail to do something, it all affects your path in life. Yes, ultimately all God’s plan. Your process. Your life story.

MCC Admin

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