“From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.’ Psalm 61:2
How many times have we read and prayed this Psalm? As many days as bills, forecasts, diagnoses, conflicts, tests, disagreements, and decisions have appeared. We become overwhelmed. It is too much. Over our head. Our feet swept away without footing. Sinking. It is not simply the circumstances but the inner strain that captivates and paralyzes our heart. We are reaching like Peter, “SAVE ME!” Then the hand lifts us. The nail-scarred hand. The graven hand (Is 49:16). The keeping hand (Jn 10:28). He Lifts! Higher and higher to His precious bleeding side. He lifts and leads us up and leads us higher and sets us upon Himself, the Rock, where the perspective is above and beyond the overwhelming flow of life.
“A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.” Proverbs 13:1
In one of the constant examples of Wisdom found in Proverbs, the initial impartation of wisdom comes from father to son, mother to daughter. In the cycle of life a child with a godly parent sees them as the source of truth and instruction in their life. Dad knows everything. As age progresses doubt invades. Dad is just bossing me around. He doesn’t know everything. Then the teens and 20’s roll in. Dad is clueless. How did he ever do anything in life. I know better. Eventually real life layers its tentacles around the heart, mind, and body of a person in the form of work, marriage, money, and children. Dad, can I ask you a question? How did you… As the cycles continue to turn, it turns out, my godly Dad and Mom knew everything after all. The same is true with God and His children. If we will not obey and heed the wisdom of a godly earthly parent, we will not heed nor obey the Heavenly Father. Wise or Scorner?
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