Road Trip

I am not one of those people who believes in alternate realities or that every choice is potentially correct. I believe there is one absolute truth; one reality, and therefore, only one right choice for every set of options. The absence of moral objections does not make a choice acceptable. It certainly doesn’t make it the best possible choice. This makes coming to decisions difficult to say the least. It also attaches ownership to the consequences that follow whether or not those consequences are expected.

Few real life decisions are “no brainers” yet that rarely slows the pace at which they are reached. Which, when you think about it, explains a great deal about our modern world and how it got this way. It is unfortunate that choosing is so easy--doing nothing is a choice. Choosing life’s course wisely; making that one right choice is not a simple task.

Given the brevity of life it is arrogant to suppose we can navigate independent of God’s counsel. But, how is a man to know the mind of God when the Bible itself says that God is past finding out? God is rightly beyond human understanding. If that were not so, He could not be God. Nevertheless, the mind of God is revealed. That is why, for now, He treats us as children commanding us to obey His instruction rather than trying to understand and explain Him.

“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”