The Daily Guide
His-story, our story
Concerning Israel he says, 'All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.'
Romans 10:21 - NIV
We need to write a new chapter in church history, a chapter about God's people being teachable! The scripture above refers to God holding out His hands in a gesture of appeal to men. He pleads with His people to hear His counsel. Israel, that is the children of Israel, by their obstinacy failed to fully enter and remain within the realm of God's promises prosperous well-being within the Promised Land. Instead, by being obstinate in the face of teaching and disobedient in the face of counsel they ended up in an awful mess. Joh.14:26.
The messes you and I get ourselves in most often happen because we aren't easily teachable or else because we aren't easily responsive to that teaching. How often have you got in a mess because you chose to ignore His appeal and continued walking in a way that was not good but according to your own thoughts? What's going to turn this around for you in the future? The Loving Teacher of the Godhead is the Holy Spirit so it's a closer, open and more responsive relationship with the Holy Spirit that you need. This is what will make all the difference to how things are working out for you in your life.
The Holy Spirit delights in teaching the counsel of God. How open are you to His counsel? How quick are you to hear? Do you delight in being taught as much as the Holy Spirit delights in teaching? Whose understanding are you leaning to? Is there anything over which you've obstinately decided to do it your own way? I trust not but, if you have, make a change! For His-story's sake, may you make the changes necessary to conform your life to His counsel. By this, you can be sure victory will be recorded to God's people! Prov.3:5-6.
Let's be makers of history!
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