TESTING

ramhors | 27 Desambra, 2006 19:14

Once, when i was young, I climbed a tree against the wishes of my mother. I got high up in the branches and found that I could neither continue forward nor go back. I held tight to a large branch and began to cry. I yelled for my mother, and I could see her walk out to where I was captive. Instead of being angry, as I thought she would be, she began to laugh, and placing her hands on her hips, she said,"I told you not to try to climb up there. Now look at you. Why do you think I tell you not to do some things?"

All too often, our inclination is to test God. We know what He says He wants us to do, but we do other things instead. We try to get away with things we know we should not. When we find ourselves in trouble we look to God to bail us out, and we cannot understand why He doesn't jump to our aid. Often God allows us to strunggle through adversity in order to learn that he means what He says.

Dear Heavenly Father, I so often do what I know you do not want me to. Forgive my foolishness and disobedience. Help me to heed You will, not my own. Amen.