Have you ever had one of those days when you get up, everything is looking good, the sun is shining and all of a sudden things change because of an attitude. My daughter had one of those mornings. She awakened from her deepened slumber and was on a warpath. She, being bull-headed like her daddy, thinks she is right all the time and there is no changing her mind. This morning I attempted to convince her that she could take another bag to school because they were having a beach day today. She told me, under no certain terms, that she couldn't take that bag. They "the school administration" wouldn't let her, she said. This coming from a 1st grader...LOL! I tried easily to convince her otherwise, yet she clung to her mindset that they wouldn't let her.
She ended up taking the bag, after a little attitudinal adjustment, but the grief to get her there was something that no parent desires. I really think we do the same thing to God. We come in with our own ideas, our own mindset as to what He can and cannot do, because we think He is limited by our own understandings. I love the fact that He has to give us a little attitudinal adjustment and help us see that He knows more than we do.
My daughter ended up taking the bag, this morning. I think she was more mad at the fact that she wasn't right. I know sometimes I get mad because I thought I knew what God was going to do or how He was going to do it, but I was wrong. I am reminded of Isaish 55:9, ""As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." I am so glad my Heavenly Father knows when I don't how everything will all work out.
Jeremy Phillips
Lead Pastor Church @ the River