Living with It
It’s the choices we make that carve our life. But what if we make the wrong choices. Sure, as Christians, we have to avoid making wrong choices, but from time to time, although it shouldn’t happen, it does. So what do we do? We turn away from our wrong and humbly choose the right one. But what if it’s not that simple? Can an unwed mother just throw away her baby and get back where she left off? Sometimes it’s not that simple. So what do we do?
King David, the Lord’s very own chosen one, was a very good king. Except for one mistake. He had an adulterous affair with Bathsheba and sent her husband to a sure suicide mission. Yes, David repented, but because of what he did to Bathsheba, he married her. He just couldn’t have said, “It was never the Lord’s will for us to meet, in fact it resulted to sin, so why correct a wrong with another wrong. Let’s just forget each other as if nothing happened.” Bathsheba would have been definitely disgraced, and left all alone, and certainly a wrong cannot be corrected with another wrong. So he married her and lived with her. He lived with his mistake. He went on living his life carrying the results of his mistake with him because these results cannot be simply turned away from.
Quite frankly, I do not know if what I’m talking about is absolutely right, but in this case, I have learned by experience that a mule at the middle of two equal stacks of hay will starve himself to death. And when this mule starves, the mule ain’t the only one affected.
Sometimes it’s just better to live with it. An unwed mother just can’t ignore her child and rationalize it by saying the child was never the Lord’s will anyway. Now that would seem to be a sin.
But still we can always depend on God’s love and mercy that everything will turn out according to His will.
“For everything works out for the good of those who love him, for those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28.
(Originally written: 1997, October 2, 12:40 am)
- A. L. E. -
King David, the Lord’s very own chosen one, was a very good king. Except for one mistake. He had an adulterous affair with Bathsheba and sent her husband to a sure suicide mission. Yes, David repented, but because of what he did to Bathsheba, he married her. He just couldn’t have said, “It was never the Lord’s will for us to meet, in fact it resulted to sin, so why correct a wrong with another wrong. Let’s just forget each other as if nothing happened.” Bathsheba would have been definitely disgraced, and left all alone, and certainly a wrong cannot be corrected with another wrong. So he married her and lived with her. He lived with his mistake. He went on living his life carrying the results of his mistake with him because these results cannot be simply turned away from.
Quite frankly, I do not know if what I’m talking about is absolutely right, but in this case, I have learned by experience that a mule at the middle of two equal stacks of hay will starve himself to death. And when this mule starves, the mule ain’t the only one affected.
Sometimes it’s just better to live with it. An unwed mother just can’t ignore her child and rationalize it by saying the child was never the Lord’s will anyway. Now that would seem to be a sin.
But still we can always depend on God’s love and mercy that everything will turn out according to His will.
“For everything works out for the good of those who love him, for those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28.
(Originally written: 1997, October 2, 12:40 am)
- A. L. E. -
