Daily Butter 11/26: Instructions

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (11/26/11):

You were shown [these things] so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

(Deuteronomy 4:35 HCSB)

In today’s ODB, Julie Ackerman Link observed people trying to unleash the power of the singing bowl as missing “cooperation.” I tend to think it is something more basic. From the Garden of Eden to 21^st Century America one thing has remained the same: Mankind’s desire to do it him-/her-self. It’s not so much a desire to ignore the Maker’s instructions as an overly high view of self. To place our trust on our own senses rather than the instructions of the Maker who designed it to work properly:

“I know the Maker says not to eat that, but I can see it looks wonderful and smells so delicious. Besides, I hear it doesn’t do what they say and that they’re just keeping me from something really good.”

There really is nothing new under the sun. It might not be as simple as “a piece of fruit,” but I know I still find my mind going through the same kind of rationalization. I used to think the Jews of the Old Testament were so hard-headed that generation after generation God is performing miracles to meet their needs and freeing them from captors yet they keep trying to do things their own way. Then I look at my own life looking for evidence I’ve really learned anything, and I’m no better. The only thing it shows me is that God is more patient and merciful and forgiving than I could even imagine. It is good to be a child of the Most High.

- Andy Jentes

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