predestination
October 21
Today we each read a passage from the Bible and discussed its meanings and relevance. Just before class Deanna and I had been looking up verses for the round table later this evening and I actually had already looked up the verse I was to discuss before class and before I knew that I would be assigned to discuss it.
This little event brought me back to predestination. Although it is something that bothers some people, I find it to be most comforting. The thought that God knew that I would need to discuss that verse in class and allowed me to look up that very verse before class is moving beyond words. He knew that I would be writing this late and gave me a memory that I can vividly recall, and He knew that I would remember it now, a month later, and thank Him. How awesome!
The thought of predestination is understandingly bothersome to some who cannot understand predestination in conjunction with free will. I do not claim to fully understand it myself but I do understand it in a sense. I have always thought that God caring enough for me to plan each everything I do, from the big moments in my life, like my first steps or when I was saved or what college I am going to, to the little things like what I ate today and how many breaths I took or the fact that I attempted in vain to curl my hair this morning [L], was truly moving. He does more than a mere writer of a novel, who develops characters. He creates entirely new, entirely unique people with separate plans and lives that all mingle together in the great web of his plan and glory. I am always glad to be reminded of this, of how caring God must be to plan all the little things in life. I am even glad that I procrastinated and did not write this reflection until now, as it gives me the opportunity to revisit the wonder that is God.
