My Wisdom and Understanding

Ezekiel 28:4-5, 10 (NASB)
By your wisdom and understanding you have acquired riches for yourself and have acquired gold and silver for your treasures. By your great wisdom, by your trade you have increased your riches and your heart is lifted up because of your riches…”You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken!” declares the Lord God!”

Isaiah 57:13 (NASB)
“When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry all of them up, and a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land and will possess My holy mountain.”

Yep! I’m frustrated. Things are not going my way. I want things done a certain way and it is just not happening. Oh, I’ve poked around and prodded and even given clues on how it could get done properly. But, to my utter exhaustion, it is just not happening. I begin to cry out feeling I have no one who cares or understands my pain when I hear a tiny voice in my head telling me to start with the man in the mirror.

Really? There are so many around me not doing what they should be doing and now this is somehow my fault? I can’t believe it. Now I’m mad and yet somehow I begin to realize it’s true. By my wisdom I have done all I can think of to make everyone else’s life easy on them. All the while it is making me miserable. I am enabling behavior that is destructive to me as a whole.

So, when I cry out in pain, I’m crying because I can’t do it all. I have in essence made myself the idol. I am worshiping my talents and abilities instead of relying upon God. The wind of frustration and disappointment blow me away when something I’ve worked hard at doesn’t happen. It’s so easy for me to take refuge in the gifts God has given to me.

Please, Lord, help me to take refuge in You. May I remember daily that you gave me my gifts to bring you glory and not to tear me farther apart from You.

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