The Prison of Pride

Galatians 6:3-4
“ If any of you think are something when you are nothing, you deceive yourselves. Each of you should test your own actions.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were given everything we wanted and wouldn’t it be better if there were no consequences for our actions. I find that the reason why a lot of people don’t wish to believe in God is because it goes against there personal comfort of understanding. God is beyond our understanding he is infinite and we are not. We try so hard to understand something that is not even on our level of thinking. So many try to either disprove or prove Gods existence. The fact is when you make that your main focus you lose sight of what matters most and that is having a relationship with him is done genuinely by first of all believing and then having faith. Faith like Doubt must be learned. We have a God who would love to just open the curtains and show his face in plain view but that’s not what he wants. He wants a true loving relationship which doesn’t need face to face evidence to believe in him. Bill Weise said,

“ What loving parent does not warn his or her children not to play in a busy street? When the sky turns dark and the winds increase, we look to our local news channel to communicate tornado or hurricane warnings. So why is it that when God warns us of what will happen if we travel down the wrong road, we are quick to say that He is myopic and condemning? Or we say he is judgmental! The truth is that He warns us because He is a good God, one who loves us and wants to help, guide and protect us.”

Its like watching a Dog get struck by a car and he lives. He limps around whimpering but when you go to help him he growls and barks at you. “If only I could communicate with you and tell you that I’m just trying to help you,” you say to the dog. This is similar to the way God is with us when we are down he puts things in our lives and guides us but a lot of the time we retract and fight him. I’m sure we have all heard the phrase you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. Many of us are that horse that refuses to drink because at first we don’t understand. Once we do take a drink and we do take that step of faith do we see that it is good for us. Voltaire once said that within one hundred years of his time, Christianity would be “swept from existence and passed into history.” Yet fifty years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used his house and printing press to produce stacks of Bibles. Jesus made this statement in Mark 13:31 “ My words will by no means pass away.” Dr. H. L. Hastings also said “If this book had not been the book of God, men would have destroyed it long ago. Emperors and popes, kings and priests, princes and rulers have all tried their hand at it; they die and the book still lives.” Everyday we face opportunities to turn towards God. We must not grow angry when we don’t understand what God is doing at certain times. We are so small compared to him and his way of thinking. Our way of thinking is so limited yet we insist on attempting to question his every move. The devil is the one who whispers into our ears that we are above the knowledge of God.