“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Mark 10:9

Everywhere I went it was Christmas! And I LOVE it! The grocery store had a sale on Egg Nog and cookies. The hardware store had Christmas lawn decorations and tools wrapped in red ribbon! Even the Barber Shop was decorated with lights and a tree. I couldn’t help but be joyful amid the festive decorations. Then I went to Walmart!

I HEARD it before I SAW it. A scream that would curl even my new cut hair! Being a ‘fixer’ I immediately rushed to the next aisle to see how I might help. Turning the corner I saw a little boy on the ground in the middle of a HUGE temper tantrum. Mom wanted to go! Sonny boy wanted to stay! And he had the whole thing going on, too! The meltdown look with tears streaming down his red face. As he was lying on the ground he hollered… ”IDAWANNNAAAAAA AAAA AAAAHHHH!” I left the store!

Being a kid myself once, then having had 4 of my own, I know what it is like to both HAVE a temper tantrum… and to face one. Because my parents never permitted them, I didn’t either. I knew the problem was NOT with the kid on the ground but with the mom negotiating above him! The tactic was just what the boy wanted… the growing audience only added to his bargaining power.

The world is in a growing temper tantrum toward God. The LGBTQ stuff, global warming, the abortion fight and the hostility to everything Biblical is just proof. God created the Earth, men, women, marriage and the baby making process. He then put rules in play for how it is all to be managed. The growing tantrum of the world is a direct assault against the basics of God’s design. Sadly, the REAL issue is that they HATE Him! But what about ME?

A tantrum is simply rebellion with the volume turned up. But what do you call it when it’s not so loud? When, what God is telling ME to do meets with a turn of the head, a ‘nah,’ or ‘I just don’t feel like it,’ it is still called rebellion! As a man and a preacher I both see it AND experience it in myself. So do you!

Daddy God has joined His Spirit to mine. He EXPECTS me to act and serve as His obedient son. Tantrums WILL ALWAYS be dealt with… HIS way.. and to HIS favor! His goal is to make me into the image of His Beloved Son. He will not rest until the job is finished… a tantrum only brings pain and delays the process.