The Stubborn Hearts...

Melodee and I have a favorite old movie entitled ‘wild hearts can’t be broken’. It’s a tale of a young girl that just wouldn’t let anyone tell her what to do and her blatant rejection of authority is hilarious. I suppose stubbornness makes for good movies, but perhaps doesn’t always make for a good life…
“When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped he kept right on sinning, stubborn as ever, both he and his servants. Pharaoh’s heart turned rock-hard. He refused to release the Israelites.” ~Exodus 9:34-35
How many times does God need to talk before the Pharaoh’s of this world get the point? The human capacity for ignoring the leadership of God is significant. And yet the results are always the same. The timeless point God is trying to make through this Egypt story is whenever people refuse God’s lead, pain follows. This isn’t because God’s mean, it’s because mankind can’t see the future and tends to choose poorly. So we ignore…ignore…ignore God and His all-knowing counsel. What is it that makes us ignore good counsel so easily and so repeatedly? It has to do with control. If we give over control to God we might not get what we want. But if we keep the controls of our life in our hands we can favor our own wishes each day. Many people are desperately trying to work out a relationship with God in which He is an ‘advisor’ rather than the ‘driver’. Ah the spiritual endeavors of THE STUBBORN HEARTS. ~verlon