An example from literature
For a season a man named Frank Bronander attended my class at Curtis Baptist Church. I also would bump into him in the operating room at Augusta University. Once or twice he said, “I’ve got a book for you…” He was referring to David Webber’s book Oath of Swords.
That book is in the Sword and Sorcery High Fantasy genre. I had just finished reading book 30 of the Shannara series. Books 31-34 were to wrap up that story arc, but the 33rd was a month or more away from release and the 34th must be a year or more off. So…what to read while I await those last bo
I’ll not summarize Oath of Swords. Many don’t like high fantasy anyway. The main character, though, has relevance for Paul’s 30th verse in this lesson. See that fellow Webber weaved into my mind was fixed in his purpose to avoid gods. Oh, how he hated the notion that a god might be interested in him. Too bad. Little by little the deity which desired his allegiance wiggled and came at this hard-headed fellow. As the reader being drawn in I was gaining sense after sense that the deity was not a bad one. This deity had the character’s good interests at heart but would not make the character submit. As life got tougher the reader got worried. When that character would say, “No,” the reader would say, “Oh!!! No, man, this deity is not so bad. You, however, are about to be in a bad way.” The reader would be grieved when the character would run.
What about us?
Most of us are not medical students. None of us are fictional characters. All of us live pursued by God. Those of us who have accepted his offer of salvation he considers as children, but we did not loose our free will in the bargain. We need to daily make sure that we offer our free will to his leadership. That worked out for the best for Webber’s main character who eventually said yes. It will work out best for us also, and especially if we say yes early in the pursuit.
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