Consulting Me

In a marriage, or a parent/child relationship, we often get bent out of shape when the other person doesn’t consult us before making a decision. I suspect we have similar feelings toward God when He doesn’t consult us before He makes a decision. It’s as though we feel our being faithful somehow entitles us to have a voice in God’s decision-making process. Paul said, “But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory” (Ro 9:20-23 NIV).