The Good Shepherd

This morning, my 1 year old son impatiently waited at my side as I cooled his breakfast that I had freshly prepared for him. His aggravation grew when I wouldn’t allow him to indulge immediately. As his father, I knew that had I allowed him to do so, the temperature of the food would have surely burned him. From this experience, I prepared a thought for my brethren.

Think of our behavior when we impatiently plead with God to give us the desires of our hearts. We question and often become angry with God for not meeting our desires on our time schedule. In the book of Isaiah 55-9, God says “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” As I possess more wisdom than my son, it allowed me to understand that the hot food was not in his best interests even when he did not. He was blinded by his insatiable desire to feed his fleshly urges. God too ignores our impatient tantrums because he knows the detriment and anguish that would accompany the desires of our heart if he delivered on our time. We lack foresight when God is the beginning and the end. Although cliché, “patience is truly a virtue!” Remember this parable when you make request of God. In the future, I urge you to pray “Lord you know the desires of my heart and those that are not in your plan. I trust you as “The Almighty”. I pray only that your will be done in my life until I join you… Amen!

By: C. D. McCloud