i love my job one
so i love my job. being a server at olive garden to be specific. i fully intend on deterring from this topic within the next 10 sentences, so bare with me.
some nights at the OG are extremely enjoyable. tonight was most certainly one of those nights. it wasn’t too busy, it was actually rather slow. but consistent. so i was able to give my guests ample service with out “over serving” them, which was very profitable once my black books hit the tables. my guest were friendly, my coworkers weren’t stressed, mike was working, i had a sahweet section, i was in high spirits (due to a productive morning), and folks were being quite generous. it was an all around delightful day at work.
Digression…
this morning(The productivity) i learned how to down load sermons on to my zune. i believe I’m up to 11! on my way to work i decided to listen to my newly acquired verbiage. i started with a series called “religion saves and 9 other misconceptions.” i chose this particular on because i don’t think i have heard any of them. logical, i know. the first sermon in the series is about birth control, whats acceptablefor Christians, whats not, and the latter. I’m about 30 min in, it’s about 72min over all. its been very educational thus far not just on a faith based stand point but also in a text book fact type of way. that’s something i love about mark. he always gives you so much context to consider. in and out of the bible. throughout the first half hour he spoke a lot about the pros and cons of a married couple choosing not to use birth control and allowing god to give them as many children as god wishes. i have immense respect for this option. it’s an enormous act of faith. a faith that quite frankly I’m jealous of. so a question has presented its self to my critical mind. my critical minds faith based counter part has attempted to debate a reasonable answer but is having no luck. so I’ll ask y’all: “if a child is a blessing, and god never gives you more than you can handle, why would he bless non-Christians, practicing pre-maritalsex, with a child that, sovereignty in his, he knows will be doomed?”
please share your wisdom below! thanks.
BLAH. I had a whole stupid thing written out but wordpress decided to attack me.
Case in point – The effects of pre-marital sex could be as detrimental as getting an STD or as hidden as the damage done to their marriage having the baggage of being intimate with someone other than their spouse. They are sining, an effect of this sin is pregnancy. The child is a blessing but the circumstance is not.
For example, I have a dear friend who got pregnant by her fiancee. He talked her into keeping the child but a week before their wedding he left her (6 mos pregnant). Now, she will tell you that her child is her world and her dearest blessing. But being a young single mom trying to go to school and work is awful and a horrible situation bore out of her sin.
What you mean by doomed I can only interpret as “not become a Christian and go to Hell”. That question is so profound and not something I can answer in the 20 second I have left before Boaz burns the house down (using only a kitty tail and some battery-operated toys!). Mark did however answer that in the predestination sermon in the “Ask Mark” series.
But I would also say, God does bless non-Christians.
Matthew 7:11
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Matthew 6:30
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!