Just like no two sets of fingers prints are the same, so every person is different in the life they lead, the skills they possess, the way food becomes either energy to keep them slender or fat to make them gain weight. No two people are the same, and how they "are" is totally out of their control. We can do all the planning we want, get a good education, or no education at all and when we are honest with ourself, we can't control how we turn out.
I would have loved to be taller, but I couldn't do anything to grow taller than 5'7", and as I age I am getting even shorter. Professional athletes have little to say about their "genes" but they act like they are in total control of their height, weight, strength, musculature and stamina when in reality God gave them the body they were blessed with and they needed only to be good stewards of what He gave them. In reality, we have no control of much of anything in life, except to take good care of what we have been given.
Everything we have is from God. It's ridiculous to think WE could have made ourselves any better than He did, and whether we are hale and hearty or beset with health issues, limitations, or have parts of our body that don't work well or may be missing, we are what God created us as, and we need to realize, if we haven't already, that God made us as He did for a reason, and it's His purpose, and not our own, we are called to accomplish. When we accept this Truth, our life will become less complicated and we will find the peace He promises us when we seek to live as He desires and submit to His control and give up our goal of " doing my own thing".
Pretty heady stuff for a Friday afternoon, but so be it. God is Good and I am grateful that He Is Who He Is and HE IS STILL IN CONTROL..........and we are not.
Thank You, Lord.
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Amen!
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