Monday, March 22, 2010

From shuyi's blog post:

"If God's goal is to grow us as adults, then on occasion, guidance may not come. In effect God is saying, "I trust you; decide for yourself." E. Stanley Jones explain:

Obviously God must guide us in a way that will develop spontaneity in us. The development of character, rather than direction in this, that, and the other matter, must be the primary purpose of the Father. He will guide us, but He won't override us. That fact should make us use with caution the method of sitting down with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper to write down the instructions dictated by God for the day. Suppose a parent would dictate to the child minutely everything he is to do during the day. The child would be stunted under that regime. The parent must guide in such a manner, and to the degree, that autonomous character, capable of making right decisions for itself, is produced. God does the same.

Becoming fully functioning adults is the goal, not children who must always be told exactly what to do."

I fully concur! :D
let them grow.
let them make mistakes and learn from them.
a sheltered plant will only wither under scorching sun and be rooted in a storm. doesn't mean we expose the plant unnecessarily also la. lol
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one of my colleagues in the workplace gave me a carebear :D hahaha
so sweet of her :)
it's yellow and soft and now sitting in my shelf :)
cheers up my side of the room :) it's like a spot of sunshine.

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