Voice Control
When I tell someone my teenage son is driving - they usually respond "Thanks for letting me know, I will stay off the road.
I understand their concern but I have a 5 step plan for my children.
1. Help them get their permit to drive.
2. Let them get their license.
3. Let them get their own job.
4. Let them get their own car.
5. Let them get their own place to live.
I do this because these people will not live with me for the rest of my life.
Of all the steps, step 1 is the hardest and scariest for me. Think about it. It has nothing to do with my children growing up, it has everything to do with giving up control. The moment your child gets their permit, you and only you, give the keys of a multi thousand pound vehicle worth thousand of dollars, capable of traveling at least 100 hundred miles an hour to a person who thinks it would be fun to travel 100 miles an hour and thinks they will live forever.
The scariest part is now at this point - you get in the vehicle with them and you have no control over the brakes, the gas pedal or the steering wheel. The only thing at your disposal is "voice control." "I said "STOP!"
Deep down in our hearts, we know that God has done the same thing to us. He give us the power to curse, to bless, to kill, to feed, to encourage and discourage.
And the only thing He uses is "voice control." Yes, I agree that God does intervene in ways we cannot understand; but when was the last time God actually used force to stop someone from having an abortion, from taking another drink and getting in their car, from hijacking an airplane and flying it into a building?
1 Corinthians 2:1-12
"When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
I understand their concern but I have a 5 step plan for my children.
1. Help them get their permit to drive.
2. Let them get their license.
3. Let them get their own job.
4. Let them get their own car.
5. Let them get their own place to live.
I do this because these people will not live with me for the rest of my life.
Of all the steps, step 1 is the hardest and scariest for me. Think about it. It has nothing to do with my children growing up, it has everything to do with giving up control. The moment your child gets their permit, you and only you, give the keys of a multi thousand pound vehicle worth thousand of dollars, capable of traveling at least 100 hundred miles an hour to a person who thinks it would be fun to travel 100 miles an hour and thinks they will live forever.
The scariest part is now at this point - you get in the vehicle with them and you have no control over the brakes, the gas pedal or the steering wheel. The only thing at your disposal is "voice control." "I said "STOP!"
Deep down in our hearts, we know that God has done the same thing to us. He give us the power to curse, to bless, to kill, to feed, to encourage and discourage.
And the only thing He uses is "voice control." Yes, I agree that God does intervene in ways we cannot understand; but when was the last time God actually used force to stop someone from having an abortion, from taking another drink and getting in their car, from hijacking an airplane and flying it into a building?
1 Corinthians 2:1-12
"When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
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