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Dear Grace Family,
 
Traveling to Cuba, to Cambodia, to Haiti, made me aware of the luxury of choice. It’s something I take for granted. I’ve grown up in a society where I have the ability to choose between a variety of options. What brand of Peanut Butter do I want today?

Ice cream flavors, menu options, TV channels, dozens of varieties of breads, toothpastes, pizza toppings, coffees! The main menu option in Haiti… chicken or chicken… occasionally goat. Imagine taking someone who had spent their entire life in Haiti to COSTCO! For me, it would not feel right. Was I flaunting my abundance and ability to choose?

Many of us bring that same mentality into our relationship with God. We pick and choose what aspects of God suit us best. We combine parts of various gods to create one we like, one that agrees with us, and the choices we make. While choosing pizza toppings has little eternal consequence… approaching God that way does. Those who chose the god Dagon watched him fall flat on his face before the Ark of the God of Israel.

We can’t always choose… God can. God did. God chose us.

In Christ,
Curt McFarland