Yesterday I read about a writer who said he was “the opposition party” in his family. Whatever Dad was for, this kid was against. I can relate to that. Sometimes I am against things just because they are popular, like Buc-ees. But growing up means using God’s wisdom to temper those attitudes—and I have learned to support many things I once rebelled against, like education.
Are you the opposition party? Do you fight things for no reason? Worse, do you fight God? David understood this—after all, EVERYONE rebels about something, bucking like an unbroken horse. Imagine if a farrier tried to treat Trigger’s hooves—it is so hard even to BLESS a horse that is wild. In Psalm 32, David compares a rebellious person to a horse with no training:
“Do not be like a horse or mule, without understanding, that must be controlled with bit and bridle or else it will not come near you” Ps. 32:9.
Does God have to use a bit and bridle to get near you? Or will you come to Him on your own?
Are you indifferent? —Interested in God, but only now and then, and at other times He has to use bad circumstances to get your attention? Most of us are—we love God sometimes, and we fight God sometimes. Ask God to give you an undivided heart. Pray David’s words in Psalm 86:11:
“Teach me Your way, Lord, and I will live by Your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear Your Name” Ps. 86:11.
Pray. Dear God, calm my sometimes rebellious spirit. Help me to bring all my attitudes before You. I want to submit to you my feelings, my opinions, my anger and frustration about lockdowns, and every other issue. Please control my emotions and give me wisdom to have the right beliefs and opinions and feelings. I submit myself to You and to Your Word—in every area. Show me where my views are wrong, and help me to change them. Make me more like You.
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