It’s so easy to take the ‘easy way out’. To look the other way. It’s even easier, to validate our decisions based on our own needs and wants and desires.
So easy to say: “let’s hurry – we have an urgent meeting, we can spend time with God at a later stage”, “God will understand that I don’t have time for Him right now, I’ll take a ‘rain check’ and get back to Him, soon as possible.”
What about? “I pay my tithes in cash, God doesn’t need my time”, “I pay large amounts into the offering, others can do the work, I’m busy”.
Pro 16:2 Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; GOD probes for what is good. 3 Put GOD in charge of your work, then what you've planned will take place. 4 GOD made everything with a place and purpose; even the wicked are included--but for judgment. 5 GOD can't stomach arrogance or pretense; believe me, he'll put those upstarts in their place.
Prov16:5 GOD can't stomach arrogance or pretense
So often, in fact, too often, we compromise on the instruction of the Word, reasoning to ourselves that it’s OK. God will understand. After all, Jesus walked the earth as a man and surely He would understand the challenges we face.
Or we argue that: God’s grace is sufficient, I can do as I please, Grace will save me from myself.
Pro 16:16 Get wisdom--it's worth more than money; choose insight over income every time. 17 The road of right living bypasses evil; watch your step and save your life. 18 First pride, then the crash-- the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. 19 It's better to live humbly among the poor than to live it up among the rich and famous. 20 It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Prov 16:20 It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Jesus teaches that “the meek shall inherit the earth”
Men cannot understand how meekness is going to inherit the earth.
Men believe in physical strength. They believe in arms and armies. They believe in craft and cunning. They believe in energy, will, and perseverance. They believe in things. They believe in matter. They believe in influencing their fellowmen, working upon them by threats, by pain, by fear.
There are few men who believe that a humble man is being used in the strongest possible manner.
They cannot credit that his humility shows that he is governed by his highest nature. They cannot conceive that an attitude of meekness is in perfect accord with the divine nature, which is dwelling in that meek one as a result of his new birth in Christ.
In saying that the meek shall inherit the earth, our Lord declares this is the potential accomplishment of the man who is indwelt by Christ, by the Spirit of God within man.
A preacher once received a letter with a pathetic story of a muddled and disordered life that ended: "It just beats me. A doctor of philosophy and unable to solve my own troubles!"
It takes more than a friend of wisdom to help us in our troubles; it takes Wisdom personified, the Lord Jesus Himself.
When everything goes wrong and troubles abound and the Christian can still go about his duties in life without revolting against God, against Wisdom, then he is possessed with this wonderful meekness of wisdom.
Meekness of wisdom is accepting Wisdom's dealings with us without a murmur and without a sigh. It is that temper of spirit which at all times says, "Yes, Lord, Thou knowest best."
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