Ever say the words, “Something has to change!” Sometimes I shout those words. I look around me and think “enough is enough,” or “I don’t want to do this anymore!”
I am usually miserable when I say things like that. And I am usually making everyone around me miserable. (Why suffer alone?) When I say things like “something has to change,” it is usually me that has to change.
Psalm 57 begins, “Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by.” Then Verse 2 continues, “I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me.” [NLT]
God has a purpose for us, one that does not involve depression, or bad attitudes, or lack of joy, or fear. Often when we cry out in our misery that “something has to change,” it is because we have been fighting God’s purpose for us. (Fighting God? How did we ever think we could win that battle!)
Fighting God is not the way to have a good life, or even a good day. Doing what we want when we want does not make us happy. It makes us miserable. The only way to have the joy God wants us to have is to allow God to fulfill His purpose in us.
Soul! Stop fighting God! LORD, have Your purpose in my life! Amen
