{wrestling}

First things first, the source of everything to follow comes from  Oswald Chambers's My Utmost for His Highest.


Pretty sure this book makes me want to paint buildings with its wisdom and shout to the world that there are no longer any valid excuses for not wanting to read the bible. It's text supports, colors, and enlivens God's word in a way that is easy to read and encouraging to live.


I think about life often. Who doesn't? From thinking, I think I've realized that I'm a fighter. Not the good kind- you know like Rocky? or someone that has overcome a huge hurdle in their life? Yeah, I wish. I'm the kind that will fight the dumb things, mostly things that I know are good for me, but they aren't what I waaaaaaaaant (whiney voice).


Can you picture a rock climber? okay good. The task is the wall of rock before you. The objective is to reach the top. You're life pretty much depends on a harness and the little spikey things you stick in the rock to clip into (I hope my knowledge impresses you....joke!).


Okay, here's the point: How much sense does it make to fight the one thing that's holding you together? "Okay God, I disagree with you, and I'm pretty sure I can manage on my own, my own way" is pretty much the same as tossing your little clippy things off the mountain and loosening up your harness. Okay, that's more comfortable... (joke again).


Why wrestle with God? We can wrestle God all day long, but afterwards- we'll find that we're crippled even more than before and we've wasted all of that time thinking about ourselves when we could have been "out there" tag-teaming it and wrecking havoc in the world of "human nature" and "pain and suffering" (in a good way). What is that phrase? And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Mark 3:25. 


Rather than wrestling with God, l want to wrestle before God- with him cheering me on and giving me what I need to overcome the things that he puts in my way. Why am I wasting so much time with wrestling for things that I think I want? 


I'm silly. Thanks Oswald. You've humbled me once again with your inspiring words. 




Merrrrrrrrrrrrrry Christmas! only 8 more days...