There are moments when I tend to disregard this wisdom, like when I am unloading the car of groceries, it is raining outside, the phone is ringing with no free hands, and I can't find my keys. At those moments feeling like a homeless wet dog, I wonder if this is a time for God to teach me about opposition. Isn't there an easier way to learn? Thoughts surface like: are you sure there has to be opposition? Is it really necessary to teach me right NOW? How about we get through this moment opposition free? Can we just give a try, and if you don't like it we can go back to the old way? Figuratively, the homeless wet dog feeling comes into many other areas of life, when we feel we have been left out in the cold, or we are not sure which direction to turn.
Now aside from my uncomely bartering with God, as if he could change the way the entire way he has created life to work to fit my needs, I recognize that my intellect could never match his understanding and I am his creation. I trust he knows what he's doing, even if I don't.
This humbling process leads me to remember he has all wisdom and understanding. I begin to have a greater conviction of the statement "For it must needs be, there is an aopposition in all things." For after all, it is more than simply a statement, it is truth, and wise counsel from a loving father.
The key word of this counsel I have often overlooked, "opposition in ALL things." The means not in some things, not just in things I choose, and not just at times I am ok with it, but in ALL things. The word ALL is inclusive. So where do we go from here? Well, I'm not sure, but I trust my father in heaven, that he will point me in the direction I need to go.
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