We can get caught up in the gross spiritual negligence of the chief priests or we can read their story as stark warning for our own. When we accuse, we become an accomplice with the enemy. And if we cannot lay aside our accusations long enough to hear from God, we may be delighting in a downstairs agenda.
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So much of this year has been about learning to sit still in God’s company.
Remember, the prodigal’s father is a description of Father God. He’s the One pacing the proverbial front porch, waiting for any sign on the horizon of wayward kids coming home. He runs out to meet us with forgiveness and restoration in hand: ready and willing to clothe us in righteousness and receive us again as beloved members of his household.
We try to give God pointers on how to further His purposes here on earth. (Maybe not you, but it’s a bad habit of mine, for sure!) How quickly we forget, we are unqualified! We are servants, not sovereign.
I have felt pursued. Have you not? Even though I have been a believer for decades, I still wake up in the morning and the worry seeps in, the accusations and the insinuations are still a constant assault. I feel the pursuit of the enemy with a vengeance that feels personal.
When we get in the way of what God is doing, we get in step with the downstairs agenda. We become a blunt tool in the hands of the enemy.
We long for heaven but we remember that God alone appoints our coming and our going. Our days are laid out purposefully in His planner. He has a divine schedule that we aren’t typically privy to.
The priests and scribes had a Kingdom-critical task to attend to but they were wholly distracted.