Do you remember graduating high school...I'll wait to give you a moment to think back. ;-)
I remember. I remember family, friends, ceremony, parties and feeling free!
It was much the same when I graduated college: family, friends, ceremony, parties and feeling free!
It was much the same when I graduated seminary: family, friends, ceremony, parties and feeling free!
Why do we feel free (or maybe why did I feel free)? I would assume it is because after attaining a new level of achievement, we anticipate a new level of freedom or reward. Seems logical. But what was that thing our parents always said?
With new freedoms come new responsibilities.
Yeah, nothing would ruin a happy moment better than parental statements like that, right? But that admonition was real and good and timely, because when I graduated all wanted was to be free and do nothing! At least for a little while. Didn't I earn it?
I find myself in that same mental process after God blesses me in life, even at the ripe old age of 35. I work hard at something, I pray and seek my Heavenly Father's wisdom and the counsel of my spiritual family, I walk through a ceremony of intentional thougt and decisions then experience the amazing grace of His hand moving in me and around me. Sometimes it's slow and difficult, and sometimes it's fast and obviously clear. Yet, after HE chooses to bless me (and it is HIS choice), I still find myself thinking I earned some new freedom or reward. Am I alone here? I sure hope not.
So, God - in His infinite wisdom and borderline annoying sense of humor - reminded of when His eldest child spoke of this. Wanna know what He said? Go get your Bible and read Luke 17.7-10.
Talk about being humbled...
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