Deal With Me

Psalm 119:124 "Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees."

When the Psalmist is asking God to deal with him he is not asking God to make a deal with him, nor is he asking God to deal him in on anything. He is asking God to lovingly teach him the lessons of life. As a parent, I have needed to deal with the issues of our children. As a pastor, I have dealt with the needs of sheep. As a leader, I have done a great deal of dealing with what is necessary. When God deals with us he does so according to His love and when He does we learn about His truth and principles........ IF we come to him with a servant heart. More often than not, we seem to just have to learn the hard way. Usually not necessary but too often our preference.

How you present yourself to God when needing to be dealt with has a lot do with what you will learn and how. If we come to Him humbly, with an open heart, submitted to His assessment we will benefit as much as is possible. On the other hand, if we come to Him with a reluctant spirit, defensive and in denial about our need to be dealt with we invariably get the longer and more stringent dealing with our issue, whatever it is.

When God teaches us His decrees it is good for us. We need it and it makes us better and stronger. We shouldn't avoid God's dealing with us. Sometimes in life, things happen just so we can learn and mature and be discipled. At the onset of such times, we wonder whether we really want to deal with whatever it is at all, but by the time, we are finished with God's lovingly dealing with us we are glad that we have grown. Many of the best things in life come with some sacrifice. Well worth it and definitely worth the effort we put into it.

A key here is that none of this happens until we ask or if we enjoy the struggle, we can wait until we finally are forced to relent. If we know God loves us we should surrender willingly to His assessment. We should not struggle as much as we do to learn what we need to know and experience. The reasons we avoid dealing with God dealing with us are pride, control and fear. Well, perfect love casts out all fear. Pride goes before a fall and God is in control. So what are we waiting for? Join the Psalmist and me today and ask God to deal with you according to His love and teach you His decrees. You will probably have to deal with it sooner or later and the sooner the better I'm sure.

A Servant In His Grip,

Pastor Fred

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