For You created my inmost being.. I
praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:13-14
It happened when you were conceived.
Thirteen male and thirteen female chromosomes came together and made you the
person that you are. A vast amount of heredity united two family trees in a
unique combination which made you an original, without a duplicate! Later in
life when you become successful, your parents sit back and say, “It’s heredity
that came through – we’re the proud parents of a winner!” And when somebody
fails, the same parents cry out, “He was influenced by his friends!” Is the
success factor heredity or environment?
Psychiatrist Dwight Carlson says in
When in Christians Shoot Their Wounded that there is another factor – your
personal choice which isn’t determined by either heredity or environment.
If we could neatly divide life into
compartments which are labeled heredity, environment, and personal choices, it
might be easier for us to cope with the problems of life and living. But it
can’t be done: You are a product of your heredity. You are a product of your
environment, the person you became by virtue of the way you were raised and how
you were treated, an individual who is influenced by the friends and company you
keep, yet a person created in the image of God, you have a volition, a will of
your own, and you have a part in determining what happens to you.
If this were not true, and if you
were not capable of change with the help of God’s Holy Spirit, God would indeed
be unjust in holding you accountable for your decisions and choices. To
understand the options and the choices which are available including God’s
help, makes the whole matter of personal choices and easier thing to deal with.
God Bless Us..
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