"LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES..."

Remember that famous statement by Forest Gump? "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get inside." Taken in it's context, one would think that this statement has a lot of merit to it. It suggests that each day that one wakes up, we don't know what that day holds for us. Let alone what life itself has to offer us. You just have to play the hand that is dealt you. I disagree with this statement because the bible says that "The steps of a good man (or woman) are ordered by the Lord. " Now let's analyze this verse for a moment, and replace the word steps with a word lets say like decisions. Now let's read this verse again. The decisions of a good man (or woman) are ordered by the Lord. Now from the "B" clause of this statement lets replace the word ordered with lets say a word like planned. The verse would now read, "The decisions of a good man (or woman) are planned by the Lord. " Now think back to all the right decisions you made regarding the direction of your life. Didn't it feel like somone was whispering in your ear helping you make the right decision? Now what about those bad decisions, when you stepped out on a limb, and out of the will of God, and did what YOU felt like doing. There was always a consequence to that bad decision.

This taken in it's totality, I merely took the long way around just to go up the street, to say that in regards to Forest Gump's statement that "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get inside," is not entirely true. Because the bible says if we will ask, God will show us the way. He will influence the decisions of our lives, and give us that, that we desire out of life.