WHY?!

"Why would God want to stop two people who love each other?"

The bell went and everyone left the Year 10 Scripture class, so I could not answer. Nor did I have an answer. They knew the gospel. They'd heard it all before. But now, in their last Scripture lesson ever, they got to the heart of the black bead (green = creation, white = life in relationship as God created, black = sin stuffing up our relationship, red = Jesus dying on the cross for our sin, yellow = eternity in a right relationship with God because of Jesus).

Why should I do what God desires over what I desire?

I have been a Christian for many years now. If I can't answer that question, then what hope is there for people who have knowledge about God, but no knowledge of God.

There is an answer. I didn't know it then, but there is an answer. It is a truth long applied to my heart by the Holy Spirit. Thanks be to the Father's desire for my salvation over and above my own desire.

Many prayers that his desire and his Spirit will bear fruit in class tomorrow.