“If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24.
I was looking for a screwdriver. Specifically, a #2 Phillips screwdriver. I have several! I was in kind of a hurry and just wanted to get a job done. But every handle of a screwdriver I grabbed turned out to be to a standard, slotted screwdriver. Digging deeper I must have discovered at least 10! But NO Phillips of ANY size!
Like an unknown law or principle designed to punish men for something unknown, lost tools are a universal problem! As remembrance of the frustration hit my head, I began to think through possible solutions. The most RIDICULOUS solution that bubbled to the top was, “why don’t you first organize your tools so you know where they are, then put them back as soon as you’re done with them?” I laughed!!!!
At my age I am past getting organized and orderly. To even think it raises the shield of insanity and the argument! “Why…why… it would take too long and require too much work to even put in a dent! After all, I am WAYYYY too far down the road to go back and redo the thing I should have done FIRST…right?”
Yes…God talks to me! Sometimes He even gets irritating! Like with this little nudge toward organization. I find that His way is always better, but then argue for my own limitations and excuses. Then it happens again. And again. 4 times this week alone! And He keeps nudging! Last night at Bible Study, we talked about those nudges.
The key word to the verse today is “remember!” That is the indication of a God nudge! When God gently speaks, through His Spirit, to my brain, “Hey…what about?” The most difficult thing for me to do is to REMEMBER what He reminded me about and ACT upon it. I have learned that often, God is not as much concerned about WHAT I do, as He is about HOW I do it! There seems to be an order to His process. Let me think about that!
What is God trying to remind YOU?
