A Parable for thinking about God's sovereignty and Man's responsibility



You’re going to visit a friend. His house across a huge snow-covered field, so he says you will have to drive his truck from the road to his house. And he tells you to avoid hitting any of his trees and bushes. Crossing the field, you turn several times. Once to avoid a large pit, once to avoid a bear that runs across your path, once because your hand slips on the wheel, making the truck veer slightly, a few times because you just felt like swerving, and once because you decided to drive over a bush.
You get there and spend the night. The next day it warms up and the snow melts. You are surprised to see that you were driving a truck NOT with wheels on snow and frozen dirt, but with train wheels on train tracks. Your friend had made the tracks ahead of time exactly corresponding with your decisions (and the bear’s decision, your mistake, etc.).



You ask your friend, “How did you lay those tracks in that pattern?” He just smiles and says, “You owe me $100 for that bush.”



What do you think? Would you improve the parable? Object to it?