*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*
*PLAYING THE OSTRICH (3).*
*Scripture Treasure.*
Rom 1:25 *Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.*
*Insight and Highlight*
When we play the ostrich, we not only neglect the truth, we also justify our neglect of the truth
*Scripture Commentaries.*
We have looked at two exhortations of how people play the ostrich.
In the first exhortation, it was made known to us that we play the ostrich when we live without concern for potential dangers around us or pretend they do not exist.
In the second exhortation, we were made to know that we play the ostrich by pretending or refusing to accept that people are different. We often neglect the truth that though we are created the same our abilities defer. The ostrich is a bird, but it is a bird with different abilities from other birds, especially in wisdom and parental care, and that though it has feathers, it can not fly like other birds.
Today, we will look at how we play the ostrich by not only neglecting the truth but also our wrongful conclusion.
How often we think we are right when we are actually wrong.
People who marry people of the same sex know they can not reproduce, yet they defend their convictions, ref Rom 1:21 -32.
In all that Job said to God, he thought he had understanding.
He defended his wrongful accusations as right.
With this mindset and false confidence, he challenged God.
He is quoted to have often asked God
Job asks God three questions: *"Wherefore was I born?"* (Job 3:11), *"How can man be just with God?"* (Job 9:2), and *"If a man die shall he live again?"* (Job 14:14). Job's first question implies that he doubts the purpose of humans.
Job's defended his false accusation by asking God to prove him wrong.
He wanted God to explain to him how his suffering was not attributed to divine injustice, Job 19:21.
At least, Job knew he was righteous and a man of prayer, Job 1:1.
Job really defended himself and saw it as God not having any explanation to defend himself.
He said *Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me,......."*, Job 31:35.
In fact, it came to a point that Job began to count his works of righteousness.
He took pride in his glorifying past. He remembered *"When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;"* Job 29:6
He began to count the things he did but not the things he did not do or might have done wrong.
In fact, he almost counted God guilty or accused God of not answering him over the things he feared because they were the things that happened to him, though he prayed against them
He said in Job 3:25 *For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.*
Thank God did not take Job's words personally and by not cursing God was enough for God to free him from all blames against Him but looking closely at Job's complaints it was like God was not good to him.
Job, in the end, knew he was wrong and admitted he had no understanding (just like the ostrich), so he stopped playing the ostrich, but how many people admit their wrongs?
How many people stop pretending or correcting their wrongs when they are faced with the truth?
If we are this dishonest, we can never be honest with anyone.
We often say there is no problem when, in truth, there is one, even more than one.
'No problem' that is meant to be so in grammatical interpretation is now synonymous with an irony or a reflection of dissatisfaction and anger that will spell retaliation.
Facing reality and the truth will avoid neglect or carelessness about a disaster that is about to happen.
When you believe a lie, you will lose the truth.
When you call a lie the truth, the lie becomes your 'truth'.
Do not play the ostrich!
*Remorse corner.*
Do not defend your wrong, or else you will never recognize what is right or recognize what is right when you see one.
*Call to Word action.*
2 Thess 2:11-12
*And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:*
*That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.*
*The Christian clarion duty.*
Do not play the ostrich!
What is wrong is wrong. Do not say it is right when it is wrong, and when you know it is wrong, admit it is wrong and do or say what is right.
*Prayer.*
Lord, help me to identify wrong as wrong and right as right. Help me not ignore what needs my urgent attention. Let me not call a lie the truth in Jesus name.
Good morning all, and have a blessed day.
God bless you.
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