People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the LORD. Prov 19:3 (NLT)

        The sovereignty of God is a very convenient doctrine at times. The fool makes stupid decisions and then rails against God for making a mess of things – "How could You do this to me?" Everybody wants freedom, except when in silliness we feel God should have curtailed our freedom to ruin things. And what is it in puny man that thinks railing against God makes a shred of difference? Maybe it’s a carry over from playground taunts.

        I think there are times when the grace of Father God hinders us from manifesting our goofiness. Praise God! But we dare not try to live in the land of stupid. I find myself flowing in thanksgiving when it dawns on me that I was just saved from a massive blunder by Father’s love. The next step needs to be making a major withdrawal from His bank of wisdom.

        A peek behind the curtain of fleshly blindness: we wrestle not against flesh and blood! Does that include our humanity? Of course, and if we aren’t arrogant enough to liable God, we flail our own flesh. The smarter response is to quickly resist the devil, confess our sin and draw on the grace provisions of the God who loved us so much He gave us His only Son! He’s our Savior not our enemy! Time spend blaming can be better employed bolstering ourselves against the next attack of goofiness.

Bruce Montroy