“Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?” Job 38:33

I’ve known where I was going to be, this last weekend, for over a year. It was back then that I was asked by my niece if I would marry her. Which really ISN’T strange, since I’m a preacher, and her request was to officiate her wedding to her fiancé. The wedding was in North Carolina, which makes me wonder if she really KNEW what she was asking?

When asked, I didn’t hesitate. I simply asked them if they wanted Jesus at their wedding! When they said, “yes,” everything just fell into place. Time, money and resources converged to make her 1 sentence request, and my 1 word answer, a reality. Thursday, ten of my family members packed up our rented vehicles and drove the 11 hours to make it to ‘The Wedding.’ It’s Monday…and for us, the wedding is over. But for them…it’s only just begun!

George Moore, a long dead Irish novelist, said that, “The difficulty in life is the Choice.” I love that line because ‘I’ have discovered it to be TRUE. As George discovered, THAT is the way things ARE! Years later, Christian Missionary, E. Stanley Jones said, “In this moral universe, we are free to choose, but NOT free to choose the results of our choosing – they are in hands other than ours.” A scary fact that ought to make every thoughtful person…cringe!

I realize man is NOT a creator. At best, we are puzzlers…taking pieces and parts of the universe and assembling them into…something. We are DISCOVERERS…capable of evaluation and decision…but not in control of consequence. Which is NOT a funny matter. God created the systems of sowing and reaping… of reason, choice and judgment! He even takes HIS loving time to WARN us in advance. It is often unheeded!

I love to write about fun, and funny, stuff. But after spending so much time and money these last 4 days, over an event that OFFICIALLY lasted less than 30 minutes, I am compelled to look at MY own life’s decisions and wonder, “what am ‘I’ going to reap after all my years of sowing?” This last weekend, after seeing my wife and family through the lens of other people’s ‘choices, and KNOWING what God has taught me these many years…I smiled! ‘Thank you God for EVERYTHING!’

What say YOU?