Proverbs 19:10a Delight is not seemly for a fool;

Have you ever felt that God was asking you to say something but your skin was itching on the inside with insecurity? I really do not have a better description for this sensation. When I felt it today I only recognized it because I’d felt it before, years ago. I did not know what it was at the time. I only learned what it was by the experience of mistakes.

God does not create obedience of faith by delight in the flesh. The flesh will take delight in doing what the flesh likes to do. When the Spirit gives you urge to obey, more often than not, the flesh will get the creepy crawlies. I now that sounds silly. I wish I had a better way of describing it to you. Perhaps that feeling you might have had when picking up a lively worm. Maybe it was having to clean up something disgusting. The flesh reacts to the urgings of the Spirit like that some times.

The only way to know for sure if it is at the urging of the Holy Spirit or not is in obedience. If it is of God, then you will find peace in obedience. If not, you will find delight.

What if you step out in faith and you are wrong, and find delight where you should have found peace? Then you will have learned a lesson upon which you can build upon. It is better to make a slight mistake and learn from it, then to do nothing and learn nothing.

Learn from your mistakes as Eli learned from his mistake with Hannah. ( 1 Samuel 1)

He did not allow his mistake to keep him from listening and speaking for the Lord on her behalf.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Ever been told, “That doesn’t concern you!”

That rebuke often bothered me because if I wasn’t concerned, then I wouldn’t have asked. I was young when that happened. In my youth I did not understand what that really meant. Maturity has helped me refocus concerns as they directly relate to me.

Worry, anxiety, passion, desire, spiritual hunger and mental pain are all part of my dominion. To the extent to which I can control my actions and reactions is given to me by God as parts of this life. I have a say in these areas. I have a responsibility in this.

Note the tense “will perfect” as a thing in process, not complete. We are temporal, our time in this life has limits. We also have life after this world. We will change again.

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

We have this expectation when we read verses like these that it means this temporal existence It is not our concern. It is His. Forever is not a temporal state, it is a hereafter state. We concern ourselves with the here and now with impatience, intolerance, and immaturity, because we are after all temporal beings. For the moment.

Philippians 1:6, 10 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

Do not be offended just because you are not yet perfected. It will come.