Quibbling With God

This past Wednesday Night Brother Greg was talking about doing what the Lord tell us to do during his message. He gave the example of telling his son to empty the dishes out of the dishwasher. Well the boy did it, but later when Greg went to put dishes in the dishwasher, lo and behold the silverware was still in there. His son had only emptied part of the dishwasher and not all of it. After the message a number of people told Greg that, in all truth he only told the boy to do the dishes, not the silverware too. I made the comment to Greg, about what everyone was saying, that what they are saying fits right into what we tend to do with God. We quibble about the details.

Jesus told us to "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no,''no.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one." (Matthew 5:37)

We tell God that we will do something, then try to quibble about what that really means. Or, we are told by God to do something and then we quibble about just what that means. When God says do it, we should do it.....all of it. When we tell God that we are trusting Him with something, or some area of our lives, then must need to trust Him...with all of it.

For Michelle and I the truth of our tendency to quibble with God has become personal. When we first heard that she was expecting we told God..."We give this child to You." When we found out that Janie Beth probably had a fatal form of dwarfism we told God..."We trust You, after all we gave her to You." When Janie Beth died, we found oursevles saying..."God, why did You take her away from us, after all You did give her to us." OOPS!!!

Here we were quibbling with God. If we truly gave her to Him and trusted Him then that means she was His, whether that meant to work an earthly miracle or to take home to be with Him, giving her a heavenly miracle. God knows the thoughts He has for us, and they are always for what is best for us. And when we tell Him..."Yes God, I trust You" then we need to TRUST Him..."Let your 'yes' be 'yes.'"

Well God, I may not know why giving Janie Beth to You resulted in her literally being taken by You, but I know You are trustworthy and true. Help me to be a man who is also trustworthy and true to You. I know You have a winning strategy and wondrous plan for our family, so please help us not to quibble with You, but rather let our "yes" be "yes." AMen