Topic: Flee Obstinacy [Saturday April 11, 2015]
Text: Lamentations 2:1-10
Key Verse: “The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation” (Lamentations 2:5).
Stubbornness is being unreasonably determined to persevere in a course against good advice. When a man decides to maintain such a disposition towards God and shuns His warnings and entreaties, this standoff will result in his undoing.
For many years, God sent His word through His prophets to Judah that they should repent and turn to Him. Yet, the people resisted not only the prophets but also the entreaties from God.
In our text, God’s justified wrath had come upon the land. All the inhabitants of Judah, men, women, children, princes and rulers languished as the invading enemy army plowed through the land with the sword and their instruments of war to destroy the cities because of their obstinacy against God. The former beauty, glory and pride of Judah suddenly became eclipsed by a cloud of gloom that spread over the whole land. The cities were destroyed; stately-built mansions of the rulers, the palaces, fortresses and defense towers were all pulled down while the king, the princes and the inhabitants of the land were taken as captives by their enemies. Disobedience to the word of God is stubbornness that has grave consequences.
Stubbornness begins when we say. “I will only believe if I receive a miracle” or “I will yield my heart but not now” or “I have a particular goal I want to achieve first”. When we know what God wants and refuse to do it, we demonstrate stubbornness and rebellion. If we continue to harden our hearts, it will develop into hardness of heart that will eventually incur His severe judgment.
Stubbornness will keep you from doing what is best for your soul, and make you invoke unmitigated disaster. Therefore, when God’s message comes to you, there is but one thing to do: just obey.
Bible in One Year: Psalm 68-71
Thought for The Day: The stiff-necked can never be innocent.
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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