Not Who We Think We Are

Six months ago I had a doctor tell me that my future had been truncated.  Now he didn’t tell me I had a fatal condition, in a way I wish he had, no he told me the condition was non-fatal.  I had he said a rare condition which had symptoms of blindness, deafness, paralysis, and dementia and the list went on.

To say he rocked my world would be putting it mildly.  I went from being a guy with a future to someone who started to lose all confidence in the day beyond tomorrow.  Unfortunately I believed that prognosis rather than look toward the Master of my life.

It was interesting that I responded in this way because up until this event I had always given such comments only partial credence.  God had total control over my life and even the prospect of death was welcomed.  I think that the impact of this doctor’s diagnosis/ prognosis was that what he left me with was “living death”. 

In fact, if this was God’s plan for me I believe that I would have received it differently.  But I can now embrace this “condition” as a challenge to be lived with or laughed off in a couple of years.  With God as my mentor and Lord I can face this the way we have faced other conditions in the past: in God’s power and grace.

This has been all very interesting or totally irrelevant depending on your point of view.  But there is an application that fits all possible scenarios. 

My mistake was in accepting the doctor’s prognosis flat, rather than submit them to the Master for validation; or not.  Paul tells us in one of his letters that “all thinks work together to them that love God”.  I think that I lost focus on this verse and others.  I had accepted this doctors diagnosis without testing it .

Certainly the decline in my movements since then backed up what the doctor had said would happen however this may have been all the result of a strange series of events which in any other circumstance would have been called fate.

Now I don’t believe in “fate”, I believe in a good God who has my interests in mind: even when we let Him down.  I choose to follow my Master’s lead and to see out my life as best I can and to the glory of my sovereign King.  It is the least I can do in the light of all He has done for you and for meWe need decide what we believe.  For there is an opposition to Jesus He is the father of lies, the great deceiver and it is our responsibility to choose between “life and death”, as Jesus put it.  We can all live to the path of Jesus or we can be carried along by the lies of the opposition to Jesus
The choice is ours to follow the Master or live in contrarily to the Good news that the master came to deliver.