“ I will make…[the]crooked things straight.”(Isa. 42:16)
I find from observation and experience, that most if not all of us (truth be told), have an inherent eagerness to straighten others out. Shamefully I have to admit I’ve spent the better part of my Christian life attempting this frustrating feat with the result being absolute futility. A waste of time.Some years ago God revealed to me, in a way that only He can, that me trying to perform this impossible task was like a corkscrew straightening out a slightly bent item. It was not them but me that needed straightened. How humiliating, how embarrassing— I blush at the thought.I once had lunch with that greatly-used Jewish evangelist, Hyman Appleman. He told a story of telling God in prayer how aggravated he was that people wouldn't straighten out their lives under his preaching. Then he came to realize, God is the great straighten-outer! He was changed!“And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.”(Lk. 13:11-13)
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