Don’t Be Stubborn!

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, change your hearts and stop being stubborn.

In his incredible book, A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23, Phillip Keller writes:

They remind me very much of a bunch of sheep I watched one day that were being led down to a magnificent mountain stream. The snow-fed waters were flowing pure and clear and crystal clean between lovely banks of trees. But on the way several stubborn ewes and their lambs stopped, instead, to drink from small, dirty, muddy pools beside the trail. The water was filthy and polluted not only with the churned-up mud from the passing sheep but even with the manure and urine of previous flocks that had passed that way. Still these stubborn sheep were quite sure it was the best drink obtainable.

Aren’t we like those sheep sometimes? God wants to lead us to the good things, but we stubbornly dig our heels in and drink from the polluted waters of this world.

God has a perfect plan for your life, but he won’t force it on you. You must choose to follow God to get past the pollution that is out there to get to the streams of living water God has for you.

Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.”

Which path will you choose? Your way that leads to all kinds of problems, or God’s way that leads to grace, peace, and joy? Don’t be stubborn!

Today’s Readings: Deuteronomy 10-12; Mark 16

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