06/02/16 GOD DID NOT LEAD ME TO WEAR LOAFERS BECAUSE I GAINED WEIGHT
Right after I got married I gained weight. (shock).
I would like to blame Martha's wonderful cooking, but at that stage of the marriage it was not always wonderful. (I can't believe I just said that.) She could do some dishes well, but it was a limited menu at that time, and she would tell you the same. Now she is a super wonderful cook, and I am not just saying that.
Actually, being a happily married newly wed, having a person in the congregation who brought us fresh blueberries from his blueberry farm every morning (which Martha used in making delicious muffins and pancakes) and getting hamburgers and milk shakes at the local Tastee Freez, were the main reasons for my weight gain.
Of course, extra weight around the middle made it more uncomfortable for me to tie my dress shoes, SOOOOO, I would jokingly say that I had decided to do something about my weight problem... I was going to start wearing loafers.
I never told anyone that God was leading me to wear loafers (which I had actually been doing since junior high school). It would have been a lie, it would have been almost blasphemous.
However, people sometimes choose a path in life that either takes them where they want to go or takes them away from where they are suppose to go, but then they sanctify their choice by saying, "This is what God is leading me to do."
God does not lead us in a direction that leads us away from our responsibilities. God does not excuse us from doing His will by giving us a choice to avoid His directives. Sometimes God's perfect will in a situation cannot be accomplished, and He provides us with a contingency plan (which He had already planned), but He never LEADS US AWAY FROM SUBMISSION TO HIS WILL.
God is good, all the time. Sometimes those who deliberately run away from God's will finally obey and repent and become reconciled to God and/or other people. However, they don't gain what they lost, and their losses are passed on to other innocent people.
Don't blame God for your unwillingness to do His will. He never leads us away from His actual will.
