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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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

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