As reading through Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest, I came across this statement, "Watch the kind of people God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him." For the past few days I've been very upset with my daughter's friend. This girl has continuously missed appointments, not returned calls, and then when my daughter is leaving the country has the gall to act like she didn't know the date when in fact she had been invited to the going away party 2 days earlier. My daughter's feeling have been constantly hurt and when she's tried to point it out, the girl manages to turn the situation around, make it my daughter's fault and my daughter ends up feeling guilty. As you can see I'm not really fond of her and very upset with her.
Now after pouring that out and reflecting upon Oswald Chambers' statement, I begin to see something else. I do this with God. I have missed many appointments with God. I've not returned His calls and yes, He does call. He's invited me to special meetings with Him and I can come up with excuses very easily to miss those meetings. I find it very easy to make excuses and even sometimes blame Him for situations. I know God does not feel guilty but I do know I hurt Him.
And now I'm very ashamed. Ashamed for the way I've been feeling about this girl - not that I excuse her for what she's done, but ashamed for the way I've been reacting to her. That is not my Father's way. But even more ashamed for the way I've treated my Father. Sometimes coming to a place where we see we are wrong is so difficult, but we need to so that we can be right with our God. It's time for me to get it right with Him.
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