LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Who Accommodates Whom?
Since we came to the Lord, many times we have tried to serve Him. We try to convince him to do what we want, to resolve situations as we propose, and to act at the times that suit us.
However, in order to walk with God, it is we who must accommodate ourselves to him. If we want to walk with God, we must adjust our pace to his. He will never accommodate himself to us. God is holy, he is just, how could he lower his dignity by taking our crooked ways, and sharing our wrong motivations?
Walking with God is a very difficult thing, for it involves changing many things in our lives. Our crooked course must be adjusted many times, until we go at his pace, and until we put our foot exactly next to his.
Our independence must be overcome, and in its place must grow a close dependence on him. That the word may be fulfilled which the Lord said: "For apart from me you can do nothing". If the yoke of the Lord is not upon us, there is no true commitment. If we do not accept to lose our freedom, how can we follow him?
Our impatience plays tricks on us. We do not know how to wait for God's time, because we have too many ideas and solutions. In order to perfect ourselves, God does not always give us solutions immediately. He waits until we have tried ours and failed.
However, we take so long to fail! We eagerly look for new alternatives, we let our imagination run wild, again and again. And then the Lord has to speak to us: "In the multitude of thy ways thou wast weary, but saidst not, There is no remedy: thou hast found new strength in thy hand; therefore thou wast not discouraged: and of whom hast thou been afraid and feared, that thou hast failed in thy faith, and hast not remembered me, neither came it into thy mind? have I not kept silence from of old, and hast thou not feared me? I will declare thy righteousness and thy works, which shall not profit thee" (Isa. 57:10-12).
When we recognize the futility of our efforts, of our brilliant initiatives, God can save us. Then we will accept to do things his way and not ours. Truly "his ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts".
Who accommodates whom? This is a matter that must be settled as soon as possible, if we are to be of any use to God. It is necessary to feel the humiliation of our uselessness, of the incapacity of our brilliant intelligence, of all human strategy; in short, of everything that comes from flesh and blood. Then we can truly say that Jesus Christ is our Lord.