According to me, God speaks very clearly and without frills. Our problem is we choose to believe that cannot be true.
For instance, we pray for help with a problem that we're having with the Gertrude of the moment, and we receive an answer to our prayer...only it's not the answer we want. We pray again, being more specific. We receive an even more "not right" answer.
It takes much praying, disregarding, praying, etc., before we ever choose to check out our prayer...the source of our problem to begin with.
We realize that we've been praying for a change in Gertrude, not in us, and the answered prayer has always been "accept," "acceptance," "resist not," etc. Who's kidding whom? That will never be right to our reasoning mind.
What we're really praying for is a "got'cha" to Gertrude's "unacceptable" behavior. Except that there ain't no God in got'cha.
I'm coming to believe that is the primary source of trouble in today's world...we all, individually, nationally, worldwide, want our own got'cha. With peace, love and joy coming out on our side.
Giving over, giving in, giving not getting will probably never be the first choice in human affairs. I suspect that's why Jesus's only two commandments, both about love and love alone, have never been accepted without exception.
I'm preaching this morning because there are more than a couple people in my life this day that are wrong, and if I give over, give in, give up, I'll lose. And I'm right.
Father, forgive me for I know exactly what I do, and I do it anyway...still, yet, again. But I'm grinning today...mostly because I know I'm giving God a giggle.
Thank you.
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