TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT

Taking it easy makes you an easy target!

Good morning men!  Welcome to day 10!  Please pray with me: Lord, You are my fortress!  You are my refuge!  I need You today!  Speak to me what my heart needs for this day!  Amen!

We drift.  We coast.  We take it easy.  We do what we want instead of what we should.  And if we don’t listen to our lives, and take note of the fruit we’re getting, our culture is designed to keep us in this perpetual state of distraction, confusion and strife.

Stubbornness is not something you have to learn, it’s more of an easy heart condition to have.  It allows you to think you’re in control.  And when the man is stubborn, everyone around that man will suffer because the ‘tip of his spear,’ is blunt.

Most of us, when asked by others how to do something, will often answer even if we don’t know.  And then, if you’re like me, when doing a task with your kids and one of your kids actually offers a better idea to get the task done, we continue in our stubborn way out of pride.

The stubborn man doesn’t listen.  The stubborn man insists on his way.  The stubborn man has difficulty admitting mistakes.  “Stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” (1 Samuel 15:23)

This is the line that Samuel said to Saul, after he said, God desires obedience more than sacrifice.  Why haven’t we focused on this one?  Stubbornness is sin.  I haven’t heard that very often.  ‘The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice!’ Proverbs 12:15

When stubbornness or unteachableness is noticed in your heart, it’s time for recalibration.  It’s time to stop taking it easy, and get your spiritual bearings again.  It’s time to get your compass points aligned with Christ, His will and His Kingdom!   

My prayer for today: Lord, I feel lost.  I feel the ‘hardness of heart’ creeping in on me.  Lord, I give You permission to ‘circumcise my heart, so that I may love You with all my heart and with all my soul, in order that I may live!’ Deuteronomy 30:6. Amen!