Happy Dance

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep to my ways.

I was wondering to myself, why do we sometimes pray to God for a need we have, expect an answer and then when He answers us in a way we don’t expect or even want, we then tell Him … thank you God, but actually I can handle this myself anyway .

Then we wonder why we are often striving and straining to get through some of the problems we have. I use the word we because I am sure that I am not the only one that does this, I am better than I used to be, but I still have times when I just seem to do my own thing.

There is this story I read a while back, that seems to fit how we can all be at times. Its about an old Scottish lady.

This old lady earned her living by “peddling” her wares along country roads. Each day she’d go out, and when she came to an intersection, she’d toss a stick into the air. Whichever way the stick pointed when it landed was the way she went.
One day a man saw her tossing the stick into the air once, twice, three times.
He asked, why are you throwing your stick like that? She said, “I am letting God show me which way to go by using this stick.” “But why did you throw it three times?” he inquired. She replied, “Because the first two times, He was pointing me in the wrong direction!”

When we pray, what do we do if we don’t like what God tells us. Do we pray again hoping we will get an answer that is more to our liking and something we want to hear?

If we do this, then we are still doing our own thing and have not come to that place of exchanging our will for His!

Or do we perhaps yield to His will and obey Him?

Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing”

There is no striving and straining. It’s just an outgrowth of our intimacy with Him. As life flows from the vine into the branches, so power flows from the one who dwells within us and affects every area of our lives.

Martha spent time “working for Him” but Mary spent time “listening to Him” and Jesus said, [she] hath chosen that good part” Luke 10:42

I believe that I need to spend more time listening to Him, to come out from the business of life, sit at His feet and listen to Him, to exchange my will for His totally.

As John the Baptist said…. I must decrease so that He may increase.


In His Love

Les