Choices

So lately I found myself pondering something a little bit theological. This is that if God knows everything that's going to happen, why does He give us choices? I asked a few friends about it and the general consensus is the same. God gives us choices, and his plan includes all different situations that could happen. What God knows is endless. He knows how things are going to happen to matter what we choose to do. It's our job, I would go as far as say it's our personal responsibility to choose to do things that fit into God's plan. If we don't, we might find ourselves on the outside looking in.

I don't know about you, but when it comes to God, I don't want to be on the outside looking in. I don't want to be in the mindset that God is against me or that I have to fight Him for some reason. When we take the time to spend with God it makes our choices for our lives easier. When we give up control to Him and let Him fight our battles, life gets so much easier.

In my life right now, I don't have a job. Now, for some people, this would be extremely stressful. There has been opportunities for temporary positions not in the IT field that I could have taken advantage of but I know God has something great planned for me in my field. I just have to be patient and let things happen how they happen. I was blessed to work at Suncor last summer and still have money in my savings to live. It's not a lot, but hey, living rent free in my parents place while I look for a job here in Edmonton has been a huge blessing.

Anyways, I guess the point of this post is really just to follow the plan God has for your life because it's easier to be with Him then against Him. 'If God is for us, who can stand against us.' God knows what will happen in the future and it will happen whether or not you want to be involved so it's up to us here on Earth to make the choice.

'I Love You'

Watching How I Met Your Mother on a Friday night with Brandon, there was an episode kindof all about saying 'I love you'. It made me ponder the impact of those words. The value some people place on those three little yet so powerful words. How some people misuse and don't value the words. The song by dc Talk, 'Luv Is A Verb' probably sums up how I feel about the four letter word. I have never been one to throw around the word and barely say it to anyone.

Sure, HIMYM was using it in a comedic sense and for comedic effect. However, they brought up some good points in this episode, not just about saying 'I love you'. They brought up points about how you should wait to have sex and things of that nature. It was a really good episode for a couple reasons. But anywho, I just wanted to make a post about the importance of love and to remind myself mostly, but remind everybody that love is important. Don't abuse it. That's about all I want to say.

Evolution

I saw a post on facebook a while back that kinda made me a little upset with how people educate themselves. The statement was that 'evolution is false in every way' (or something along those lines). Now, whoever reads my blog knows I like dictionary definitions so why change now?

ev·o·lu·tion   
[ev-uh-loo-shuhn or, especially Brit., ee-vuh-]
–noun
1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
2. a product of such development; something evolved: The exploration of space is the evolution of decades of research.
3. Biology. change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.

In this case, I don't think evolution is wrong. At all. Now, the person was obviously referring to definition 3. As a Christian, I can see where they might be trying to come from because the theory of evolution has been tied together when the origin of species. I believe evolution happens. To say it doesn't happen would make anybody seem like they don't know what they're talking about. However, to say that humans evolved from primates? Yeah, I don't believe that. At all. I believe we were made and that our God has a plan for everyones lives. I have experienced miracles, I have experienced situations where it couldn't be anything but God that made it happen.

Now, back to evolution. Natural selection obviously happens. If it didn't, how come so many species become extinct even year to year? How come there is variations of species? I see myself as a realistic person. I believe what makes sense in my mind. That being said, I am a Christian, and I believe that evolution happens. To say species all came from the same place doesn't make sense. To say humans came from primates makes no sense. Yes primates are smart and 'similar' to humans, but they are not us! We are not them!

That's all I have to say about this. Sorry if it doesn't seem to flow together very well. I was watching Auction Hunters as I wrote this.