December 25, 2004

• Well, it was a Merry Christmas and all kids seemed very happy with their presents. The hit seems to be a small security camera that my husband bought for my middle son. All three kids have been “spying” on the cat, the lizard and snake by placing the camera near their areas, and watching from the living room. They have big plans for it. My son got a small servos and spun the camera around. He wants to put it outside and see what wild life comes across our lawn.

  
  

  I have to tell you that Christmas is way more fun with kids around. We do keep Christ in Christmas, and I enjoy so much the fun the kids have with their toys. When I was a child I used to count the hours, minutes and seconds until I was safely back in my school classroom. Home was not a fun place to be.

  
  

  We were watching the Wizard of Oz the other night and I kept remembering how puzzled I was that Dorothy would ever want to return home. If I were in her ruby slippers as a kid, I would never have left Oz.

  
  

  We were talking about Hezekiah in our Friday Bible study. Hezekiah puzzles me. He moaned and groaned so much that God extended his life for 15 years. God stopped time. Wonder why God, who could do this, was powerless to intervene in my life? But what did God’s intervention produce. A son for Hezekiah who did more evil than any of the former kings. What was God thinking? If Hezekiah had just put his house in order and died, that whole life of Jews would have had a different outcome. Why did God go back on his word that Hezekiah would die?

  
  

  I know that sometimes what we wish for is not in our best interest, and sometimes is detrimental to others. Why does God say yes to some of these detrimental requests and no to others where it would really be helpful?

  
  

  I guess purists would say that we should not question God’s sovereingty, and we should just assume that what happens is in the best interest of us. But sometimes God’s plans take years and years, 400 years of captivity, etc. So are we just pawns in some sort of game?

  
  

  Sorry if I sound so negative, but it is hard for me to trust God who seems so uneven in his interventions.

  
  

  Was also thinking about a science fiction episode called, “To serve man.” It was about space aliens who came down and presented people with a book. Translators worked hard on the book and came up with the title, “To serve man.” The aliens seemed to be really serving men, helping out, giving inventions that reduced sickness, and everything looked good. People were excited to be invited onto the spaceship to go back to the aliens’ planet, and as people were loading onto the ship, someone translated the book, and found out it was a cookbook of how to cook humans and serve them. They had blindly walked through and accepted what wasn’t real.

  
  

  People say that satan is the great deciever, and I know for a fact that many of the deceptions that I bought into came directly from Him. But what can we honestly presume from God? Could we be misrepresenting how much He wants relationship in our lives? Could be be misrepsenting how much He is in control in our lives? I really want to understand God’s interventions and lack of them at times. Consistency would be comforting.

  
  

  Heather

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