What If?

Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.            Psalm 37:3

When our family was young, we loved to play the What If? game.  It was fun, and it helped create imaginative thinking and sometimes even a sense of right and wrong.  Every parent has said to their child at one time or another in the midst of a battle, “What if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you follow?” in response to their cry, “Everyone is doing it.”

Sometimes the questions in our game would be, What if we had a million dollars?  What if  we were famous? What if we lived in the old west? What if we could go to the moon? What if we had no electricity, and the list goes on.  One day the question turned thought provoking; “What if you could be God for ten minutes, what would  you change?”

It’s easy to say that you’d grant world peace, eradicate hunger, cure cancer, or eradicate poverty, but what about the personal side of the question?  What would you change in your life if you had a chance to play God?

What if you could go back to a road you didn’t take and take it?  What if you could go back to a relationship and do it differently?  What if you could change a decision in your life?

When I reflect on things I wish I could change, it suddenly occurs to me that every decision, every road, every relationship, has a direct impact on others.  If I change any of the courses of my life, then other people would also be affected.

Instead of What if I could be God, I think the question is; “What if we need to ask Why?  Why we took the roads we took, made the decisions we did, or  did the things we did?”  I think the answer is because God is leading us a certain way. I firmly believe that when the Lord is on our side and we listen to Him, He leads us through all the decisions.   We should have no reason to look back or question.  We have to take ourselves out of the equation and trust God to do both the possible and the impossible in our lives.

What if we just pray and trust?