IT’S NOT THAT IMPORTANT ANYMORE

Life is interesting and if we live long enough, we will find that many things we stressed about were not really important and would have had only minimal impact on our lives if we had let them go. Some such things seemed so important at the time that they formed the basis for major decisions we made so that we made serious life decisions based on transient issues; unfortunately, some such decisions have impacted on our lives negatively. Some of these negative impacts we can never do anything about but we have a chance now to make better decisions that will annihilate the effect of some of those wrong decisions. I pray God helps us make the right decisions now. 

Mathew 25: 24 - 25 “Then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a harsh man, harvesting crops you didn’t plant and gathering crops you didn’t cultivate. I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back.”

This servant was obviously emotional and unnecessarily sensitive unlike the other servants. If their boss was mean, they all knew it and probably even hated it but the others made rational decisions whilst he did not. Life gets more tedious when we get too emotional and selfish about issues so that even silly issues become important because everything gets muddled up and we are unable to separate issues. We then make those decisions that several years after, are obviously stupid because the issues on which they were based were too little or transient to have meant so much. Unfortunately, God can’t stop us when we insist on making those decisions since He will not suspend the use of our brain.

Deuteronomy 8: 15 - 16 “Do not forget that He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes, scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock! He fed you with manner in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.”

Interestingly, none of these bad decisions took God by surprise. Though those are not the decisions He would have liked us to make, He knew we would make them and tried to prevent us from making them. In trying to prevent us from making them, He took us through certain experiences in the course of life’s journey to prepare us to make the right decisions correctly separating issues; yet despite successfully coming through these experiences, we often fail. My greater worry is that the younger generation of believers, do not make the same mistakes. Life is definitely easier when we learn from other people’s errors but some people just want to make their own mistakes and maybe it is best to let them after all everyone is entitled to an opportunity to make their own mistakes despite that it may cost them more than they ever bargained for like the servant below. 

Mathew 25: 26 - 30 “But the master replied, ‘you wicked and lazy servant! If you knew I harvested crops I didn’t plant and gathered crops I didn’t cultivate, why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? I could have gotten some interest on it. The he ordered, ‘take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver…Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”