"Whatever"

   "If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, Stop at once. Never reason it out and say - "I wonder why I shouldn't?" God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying - "Now, Lord, what is Thy will?" (Oswald Chambers)

   Chambers indicates that there are two "common senses". There is the one that is of the world, that would be the way those that are not Christian operate, and there is also that "common sense" that is given by God that points us to the way that God wants us to live our everyday lives.

   I often say that I operate under the sense of "thy will be done", but is it just a fatalistic thought that whatever will be will be, or is it a conscious knowledge of God is in control and I want to be in the center of what He wants for my life?

   I hear people say, when some correction is given in their lives, the one word phrase "whatever". This shrugging of the shoulders and the speaking of the word, gives the idea of apparent submission but not gladly.

   I definitely do not want to be a "whatever" Christian.

   God help me.