When going to a grocery store we must first park on the parking lot. Let's look at our lives and God's will for our lives as that parking lot. He has given us a life to live (the parking lot), and we have many choices to make (the parking spaces). We can choose to park on one side of the store or the other, in a spot close to the door or farther away. In our lives we have choices also, how to deal with certain situations, how we should raise our children, how we should treat others, etc. We have the freedom to choose in which place we want to park and how our car - our lives - fit into that space.
Now there are rules! If we choose to park in a handicap spot without a handicap sticker we are breaking the rules. If we choose to take up two spots on the parking lot we are breaking the rules. Both of these two scenarios involve us not only breaking rules, but involve us effecting someone else by taking their spot. We make it harder on the handicap person by taking their spot and we leave someone else no room to park when we take up two spots. We do this in our lives also. At times we hurt others with the choices we make. We make it harder for others to enjoy their lives, or we push someone out of a place that they would fit because of our greediness. This happens when we are more concerned about ourselves then about others. Sometimes our carelessness can even lead to an accident on the parking lot....getting too close to another car or opening our door without watching what we are doing which leads us to hit the one beside us leaving an indention. How many lives have we hurt while being careless with the choices we make? How many "indention's" have we left on others lives? All because we have been careless in our choice of where and how we park.
Does this sound ridiculous? Consider Adam and Eve, they had free reign of their lives in the Garden of Eden. God did not tell them how to walk, what to eat and when, or how to spend their time. God only had one handicap parking space....do NOT eat of this fruit. Through their carelessness and lack of regard for God's will they ate of the ONE fruit! They parked in the handicap spot without a sticker! Adam and Eve's choice effected the rest of their lives, and still effects we as humans today. Have we found ourselves just as Adam and Eve? We have freedom from day to day to live as we wish, to live a good life and enjoy.....BUT at times we choose to eat the fruit - the ONE fruit we shouldn't eat.
Let's make wise decisions with the freedom that has been given us. Let us not park in the places we shouldn't and let us not be careless and effect those around us in a negative way.
Just some thoughts.
