Where... a ? or !

 So do you know where you are? What season are you in? Where do you want to be? Are you willing to pay the cost of getting there? and/or Not getting there? I suspect, in some respect, I'm asking you what you are doing with your free will. Saying you don't have it is completely untrue - you do! Not using it is using it. The Father chose to make His ultimate creation, man, have the ability to make his own decisions. But this is not in a vacuum - we have all the directions, understandings available to us to make Good decisions - it's called, The Bible. All your questions are answered there.

And notice I did not say you will always understand... or even like the answers. Not the point - the answers are there and we have the free will to accept it or not. But remember, not accepting it comes with more consequences than following it. I also discovered that the Lord never gets upset with all my 'why's'. He always patiently explains through His word. Then again, I don't approach my why's with a rebellious spirit - my intent is to understand. Interestingly enough when I get to that point of accepting or rejecting - liking isn't one of the options. I may not like it... but will I follow it? 

Sometimes the problem seems to be that we don't always like the decisions we make. Or maybe we feel rushed (by whom?) to make a decision we aren't confident in? Perhaps it's a case of accepting the lesser of evils? When we begin heading in the direction of a decision, do we also begin to develop our scapegoat in case things don't go positively?

Remember too that we have different seasons. Sometimes we are in a highly active time in which time just flies by. Other times we seem to be in a learning time. Do we recognize this and take advantage of the opportunity to learn, to grow? Still other times appear to be testing times. As uncomfortable as those times are - do we choose to learn through them? My belief (based in scripture - James 1L13) that the Lord will never tempt me. Test, on the other hand - absolutely. 

Why tests? Because that tells us what it is we do know and understand and what we still need to know. Tests are as much for us, making certain that we are learning and incorporating into our MO what we learn and know AND still need to learn. So back to the initial question. Do you know WHERE you are and is it a ! or a ?, and what will You do about it?