Luke's Attempted Monarchy

Isaiah 29:16 You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?

Luke is two years old, and ramping up his independence. Oh what a joy! Suddenly he knows how to do everything, even though he can't do anything. What's so much fun is that in his struggle of knowing everything, yet knowing nothing, he firmly tells us that we don't know how to do anything. God supplies the miraculous event of procreation, but in a practical way Evie and I "co-made" Luke with the obvious Grace of God empowering the event. It is truly a ridiculous site to see him drowning in frustration and failure, yet forcefully rejecting the knowledge, leadership and authority of his parents that God allowed to bring him into this world.

Isaiah 29:6 above, describes our sin nature's propensity to treat God the same way. With out healing from Christ, we will think that we can tell God what is right and wrong. How ludicrous is that? About as ludicrous as the coffee cup in my hand giving me direction on how to handle it.

Yet we see this all through our society. "Churches" are even in on the action now telling God which parts of His word are right, and which are wrong. They do this by attacking the integrity of scripture by saying "that was Paul's opinion and I am entitled to mine". In effect they ignore the spirit led writing of the scriptures being breathed out by God (2 Timothy 3:16).

We can feel this tendency touching the core of our souls, as we are tempted to rebel against God and show Him where our knowledge and ability is above His ways. While we may never say that out loud, that is exactly what we are doing when we go through life making choices without knowing, meditating and appropriating the will of God through the Word of God. When we skip deep prayer times in which he wants to instruct us for His Glory and our Good, we in effect miss them both as we chart a blind course through troubled waters. Not caring about the Will, Word or Glory of God is not a good sign my friends. Telling God what you are going to do as you lead out in your own life is a horrible mistake. You might as well ask your coffee cup for answers, or my two year old son Luke.

Give pause to the Word and Will of God. Do not try and believe that you are the center of the universe and that your perspective carries any weight with the God of the World. When we try to rewrite or ignore scripture, blame God for the bad but credit ourselves for the good things, and live as our own law we have made ourselves our God.

I have no right to try and enforce my opinions on God. You are probably thinking that I don't have any right to enforce my opinions on you either and you would be right. That is when I would point you to the fact that this is not my opinion it is God's as stated in His words. Do you care to know it, or are you doing "just fine, thank you" with your own?