6/17/2020
Desk of Dennis Piller
Do God’s requirements seem Mickey Mouse to you?
A chaplain related the story of ministers and priests coming to a special chaplain school in the military. These men were used to running things their way, in their own parishes but they came to a place where they needed to adapt to the world of military discipline. A daily inspection was required at what they considered to be an outrageously early hour at 7:45 AM. They were so in rebellion of this practice and to make matters worse, sometimes before the inspection, they could be heard singing the song from a popular TV program. (Sing it) M I C K E Y Mouse.
And they were right in one sense, a lot of the requirements were Mickey Mouse. But later on, when they were in the field with the Marines, they were able to appreciate the discipline that taught them obedience.
Do God’s requirements seem Mickey Mouse to you? They did to Naaman the leper. 2nd Kings 5 He wanted to be healed of leprosy but he thought the instruction of God’s prophet, to dip himself seven times in a dirty river was silly. Is daily prayer and Bible reading or church services Mickey Mouse to you? Naaman only received his answer to prayer after being obedient, after being disciplined.
Edward Lewis Cole said, “You cannot gain by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience”. You cannot expect God to bail you out if you picked up on the Mickey Mouse mentality of the things of God. The bottom line is simple. Repent and return to God.
God’s laws are unchangeable. The farmer learns the laws of seasons and becomes governed by them. He plants when he should and then reaps when the harvest is ripe. For him to rebel and plant out of season does not change the laws of God. It means only the failure of his crop. I know you must be getting this. Only a fool thinks he is big enough or smart enough to violate the unchanging laws of the eternal God and get by with it. NO man can break God’s law. I know many of us have been getting away with stuff for years. BUT, He will only break himself.
On the wall of a Waldesian Church, wall hangs a picture of an anvil and a number of broken hammers, with the Motto. Hammer away, ye hostile hand! Your hammers break, God’s anvil Stands! Think about it!
God of all my days. Casting Crowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocPcgqCDE0
