But stay here
one more night, and I will see if the Lord has anything else to say to me.” (Numbers 22:19 NASB)
There are times when the Lord allows us to walk in the error of our
ways. There is a battle between
conviction and corruption that rages in a divided heart.
Balak, the King of Moab, had asked the prophet Balaam to go with him and
curse Israel. The Lord explicitly told
Balaam that he was to not go with him (v.
12). Balaam asks again for
permission to go. If the Lord says no,
and we continue to ask Him, we are apparently trying to get the Him to change
His mind. There was a battle going on between God’s will and Balaam’s. Balaam was not willing to directly disobey
God, but also did not want to obey Him completely. Here we have a divided heart where conviction
and corruption were engaging each other.
When we are Hell bent on doing it our way, sometimes, God lets us do it. This is never good for us. If you know Balaam’s story, God used a donkey
to bring pain into his life. At times
the only way that God can get through to us is by teaching us in the school of
hard knocks. In Balaam’s case, it was
all self-inflicted.
My dear brothers and sisters, I have to admit that when God has had to
send a donkey into my life to bring a measure of discomfort, I tend to respond
a bit like Balaam did. I blame the
donkey and not myself. Corruption is
raising its ugly head and winning over conviction, blurring my perception of
the dilemma. What is the solution? Chose conviction over corruption, which
usually requires some humility.
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Ken
Barnes the author of “The Chicken Farm and Other Sacred Places” YWAM Publishing
Email: kenbarnes737@gmail.com
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