God Speaks: LooneyToon Logic
By James Hughes
“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified through faith.” Galatians 3:24 (KJV)Watching that rather humorous scenario on TV caused me to recall all the times I had hit a dead-end in my spiritual walk. It was like walking through a maze. There were endless twists and turns. I anticipated the next turn would bring the path to escape, but I would only find a tall, thick, hedge staring back at me. My only sanity was in knowing that somewhere there was a path that would lead me out.The Holy Spirit was attempting to lead me out of an unending maze of my efforts to please God. I was performing good deeds, but I had been spinning my wheels. For a long time, I was going at great speeds only to find myself running into my own black tunnel … the law. Just like in the scripture, the law was my master.I had always tried to keep God’s commands, only to end up in my own heap of failure. I won’t even tell you how many times I went around the mountain of defeat. All along my Schoolmaster was trying to teach me that it is impossible to keep His commands with my own strength. No matter how hard I tried, I would fail.One day I actually heard Him say to me, “Why don’t you just stop trying?”What? Me, stop trying? That can’t be God’s voice … and once again, around the mountain I’d go.Yet, in the middle of this new insight … I sadly began to see how much God must have been grieved as He watched me stubbornly turn away from His truth. I was determined to run my own course and felt confident that with enough resolve, the next time would be different. Not realizing it, I was leaving Him with no choice. He had to let me go my own way.That is, until that morning! I woke up and decided to watch a cartoon! God must have said to Himself, “Today my beloved one will not have to make that trip! I’m going to reveal to her all that she needs. I will show her that the answer is to believe that Christ has already done it for her.”It goes on to say in Galatians 3:25-26 (KJV):
“But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”Hallelujah! The wonderful gift of faith has finally arrived! I was no longer in need of such a strict tutor! My graduation was beginning to commence. Even if it meant receiving my diploma from the “school of hard knocks,†it was ok because it was definitely the school of higher learning.Now, if in the future anyone decides to make fun of me for watching cartoons … I plan on telling them that sometimes God chooses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27).I thought I was wise, but it took a foolish cartoon to remind me that God’s thoughts are not my thoughts, and His ways are not my ways (Isaiah 55:8).Copyright © Missey Butler, used with permission.
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