I’m preaching on “The Providence of God” this weekend. As I spent time studying this doctrine within Scripture I found that my emotional reaction had very little to do with what is plainly taught in Scripture. It had everything to do with a feeling of loss of autonomy. I was reminded of a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon I saw recently. In the first frame, Calvin says, “I refuse to take out the garbage! I have the right to do whatever I want. All the time!” In the second frame his father replies, “No you don’t” To which Calvin responds, “I don’t?” In the last frame Calvin is seen dragging a large garbage bag across the floor while he grumbles, “Well it sure OUGHT to be a right.”
I think for most of us who follow Christ, this is the heart of our struggle with the sovereignty of God. We, like Calvin, want the right to do whatever we want. All the time.
1 comment:
How RIGHT you are! Just yesterday I was grumbling to myself (since no one was around) that I was taking out the garbage and bringing the cans in from the street, wondering when this, too, had become "my job." Perhaps the admonition of "whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all to the glory of God..." should have said "whatsoever you get stuck doing..."
Jeanette
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