Today's Devotional

 

 January 22, 2009

                                                                                                                        

Subject:  Say One Thing, Do Another 

Matthew 21:28-29 "But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.  He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went."

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I was in conversation with a co-worker who was really having a hard time accepting the new President.  I explained to him that you can't oppose him yet because he hasn't even started to govern.  My friend said, "yes but he's going to mess up."  We went further in the conversation and I told my friend that in my view, regardless of what people think and many times what they've said they're going to do, they get a blank slate until they act.  

I spent way too many years in Washington to judge people based on what they say they're going to do.  Life, like politics, has a way of changing hearts and minds.  Of course that's not always for good, but change always happens.  

This is what Christ was talking about in the parable above.  The son who said that he wasn't going to do his father's will, did it.  Later on in that scriptural passage, it asks the rhetorical question if you think the son would be approved for doing in his father's will even though he said he wouldn't.  

God wants our hearts to be right, but many times they aren't and even then, He desires that we do right anyway.  

So today regardless of what others have said and regardless of what the intentions of their hearts may be, wait to see what they do.  Remember the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord and He turns it wherever He wants it to go. (Prov 21:1).   

            

Carlen