Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)
Now
that I have access to my library, I’m rereading Hearing God by Dallas
Willard. Today, it was about the requirements necessary to hear from God. He quotes
A.T. Pierson, who says that we must be meek, and defines the term as having “a
real preference for God’s will.” Mr. Pierson goes on to say,
To wait before him, weighing candidly in the scales every consideration for or against a proposed course, and in readiness to see which way the preponderance lies, is a frame of mind and heart in which one is fitted to be guided; and God touches the scales and makes the balance sway as he will But our hands must be off the scales, otherwise we need expect no interposition of his in our favor.”
The thought that came to mind was not the scales that Mr. Pierson mentioned, but a Ouija board. The idea behind a Ouija board is that the people whose hands are on the pointer are not the ones guiding the pointer. Rather, they are being guided…or so we’re told. I tend to agree with the folks who say, “take your hands off the pointer,” but that supposedly takes all the fun out of the game…or perhaps all the con and control. In a manner of speaking we and our circumstances are God’s pointers. If we’re to hear from Him, we have to keep our hands off!
Abraham and Sarah come to mind as people who couldn’t keep their hands off when they added Hagar and Ishmael to the mix. Abraham did a better job when he sacrificed Isaac. Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego kept their hands off. God could save them, or not, but they would not bow.
To wait before him, weighing candidly in the scales every consideration for or against a proposed course, and in readiness to see which way the preponderance lies, is a frame of mind and heart in which one is fitted to be guided; and God touches the scales and makes the balance sway as he will But our hands must be off the scales, otherwise we need expect no interposition of his in our favor.”
The thought that came to mind was not the scales that Mr. Pierson mentioned, but a Ouija board. The idea behind a Ouija board is that the people whose hands are on the pointer are not the ones guiding the pointer. Rather, they are being guided…or so we’re told. I tend to agree with the folks who say, “take your hands off the pointer,” but that supposedly takes all the fun out of the game…or perhaps all the con and control. In a manner of speaking we and our circumstances are God’s pointers. If we’re to hear from Him, we have to keep our hands off!
Abraham and Sarah come to mind as people who couldn’t keep their hands off when they added Hagar and Ishmael to the mix. Abraham did a better job when he sacrificed Isaac. Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego kept their hands off. God could save them, or not, but they would not bow.
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