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The Fork

We were in a wedding hours ago and there was this kid that was playing with the fork and the knife. A year-old little girl that was seated a chair away from where I was. She was too adorable to be deprived of her simple pathetic joy of just putting the head of the utensils on her face.

When we saw it, we were very panicky that it might catch her eyes and more problem might occur. She would throw tantrums whenever her parents take it away from her. My mom whispered that if she was the parent, she would just take those knives and forks out of her reach and allow her to cry for eternity than to be hurt by them. Free parenting session with my mom.

As I heard my mom said that, I thought to myself how God says no to things that I really want and I get angry at Him and be on a beast mode against Him thinking that I know better than He does. Silly me. I’ve never known better than God.
Fork Road. You have the choice. Either
to make it or break it. Obey the will
of God or not.

You see, most of the time we have that concept of we-should-do-what-we-think-will-make-us-happy not knowing that God wants us to enjoy life, the life that He created for us, without pain and sufferings. But hardheaded people as we are, we go our own way and when we get into the consequences of what we did, we would again cry and this time waking up to the reality and now knowing that God wanted to protect me when He was trying to take away the one I thought is love and God wanted to give me better because of His unfathomable love and unimaginable grace.

While looking for a trivia about forks, I bumped on to this “In the 11th century the Christian Church was opposed to the use of forks. So much so, that when a Byzantine princess who used a 2 tined gold fork died from the plague, her death was called "a just punishment from God."”*

Being in the center of His will makes
everything beautiful. Even making the
fork lovely.  He makes everything
beautiful in His time. Wait.
A tuning fork. Used to create the best
sound for instruments. Which like God
wants us to sound the best for Him.
I am not proving the above statement as fact but what I wanted to point out is that God isn’t a legalistic God. You can do whatever you want but be sure of this, you cannot escape the consequences. You may escape the big consequences but there will always be consequences that are inevitable. I like how one pastor coined it, love God with your all and do whatever you love to do.



In His Pursuit,
Michelle Aquino <3


*http://www.foodreference.com/html/fforks.html



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