It is not just the children who like to play-act; we adults enjoy performing also. One of the characters we take pleasure in imitating is...God. How we relish putting on God’s garb, then playing His part in other people’s lives. Oswald Chambers calls such a person a, “Amateur Providence.”
Peter is a good example of playing a “miniature God”. We all are familiar with the scene where Jesus told His disciples He was going to suffer and die, then raise again, this being God’s will for His life. And how did Peter respond to this truth? “Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.”
Here we learn a stark truth. Whenever we attempt to shield loved ones from the cross God has placed in their lives, Jesus says, “thou savourest not the things that are of God, but those that be of men.” To be blunt, our Lord tells us, doing so is to be satanically inspired. Let us not be spiritual thieves, robbing loved ones of “the fellowship of His sufferings.”
“You take from me a life I cannot keep, you bestow upon me a life you cannot take.”
(an early Christian martyr)
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