Many Hands Make Spoiled Broth

Today's title is a mashup of two common cliches:

Many hands make light work.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Both statements are true when they are applied in the proper context, and yet when put side by side, they seem of conflict with each other.

Scripture can be twisted out of context with similar effect. When that happens, it is easy for a person to be in bondage to a false paradigm.

I believe this explains much of what went on with KatieLyn. We know that when Christ (the Word) was tempted in the wilderness, Satan used scripture (the Word) in his attack. Fortunately, Jesus rightly divided the Word and did not fall for the intended deception.

There was a Star Trek episode that used this plot device:  A powerful alien bot seemed unstoppable until the last five minutes of the show when Captain Kirk pointed out an error in its reasoning. Since the bot was programmed to destroy everything that was illogical, it had to perform a suicidal roboticide.

Similarly, KatieLyn could not find the truth between apparently competing scripture and killed her own wedding.

Here was her dilemma:

Ephesians 6:2
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may go well with you and that you may be long-lived on the earth.

Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Her mother had been manipulatively whining for months that KatieLyn was going to leave; that Joe was doing something cruel by "taking KatieLyn away" from her.

Four days before the ordained wedding, KatieLyn chose to not oppose her mother. In doing so, she opposed God's plan for her life and put the Whammy on a lot of other people. Now God will have to fix that for them.

Notice that while the leaving houses and family scripture speaks of inheriting eternal life, the honoring parents one has a promise of  "long-lived on the earth." The Gospel of Mark even adds the death angle:

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death.

She did not realized that these scriptures were not in conflict. Here is the part she missed:

Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

The Lesson
If she had first sought the Kingdom of God instead of her mother's advice, then KatieLyn would have found what God told her in the first place: That He had ordained this wedding.

Instead, the sorry truth is that KatieLyn failed her time of testing.  She demonstrated that she could not trust either God or Joe as much as she trusted her mother.