Friday... How does your weekend look?

Friday... How does your weekend look or how does it go when we have control, when it is up to us?

As I sit here writing this it is Friday, the end of, for most people, another work week. Now for most people their work week is controlled by other people at least 40 hours of it but our weekend is up to us. So how does that go?

The truth is if we give our total week, our total life over to another we will find it to be a wise thing to do. You see we are free moral agents. In other words, we live our life with choices and we are free to make those choices but we are not free of the consequences of those choices.

I jokingly say to my barista friends on Monday morning, how did you weekend go? Was there any jail time? They say, of course not, I'm better than that but there could be other consequences of the freedom of the weekend.

The writer of Proverbs 2 in verses 9-15 (MSG) says, "So now pick out what's true and fair, find all the good trails! Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge your pleasant companion. Good Sense will scout ahead for danger, Insight will keep an eye out for you. They'll keep you from making wrong turns, of following the bad directions of those who are lost themselves and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed, those losers who make a game of evil and throw parties to celebrate perversity, traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends."

Yes we have the freedom of choice but not the freedom of the consequences of those choices. So I choose as my companions, Lady Wisdom, Brother Knowledge, Good Sense and Insight and God has introduced them to me. I give my control not only the weekend but my life, over to them. And I do that by seeking them out through God's Word and with His Spirit. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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