Here is a short Bible passage, relatively unknown, that provides answers to a surprisingly large number of problematic theological and philosophical questions:
“I am YHVH your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it. But My people did not listen to My voice; and Israel did not want Me. So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own counsels. If only My people would listen to Me; if only Israel would walk in My ways! In a little time I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes.” (Psalm 81:10-14)
Let’s look at some of the spiritual principles:
If we will not listen to His instructions to receive blessing, we will have to learn from the results of our own counsel and decisions.
Our rejection of God’s wisdom and the stubbornness of going our own way have produced disastrous results.
If we could see that our wrong attitude and actions have caused these disasters, we might be willing to turn back to a loving relationship with our heavenly Father.
If we would only come back to God and listen to Him, everything would change.
Due to God’s grace, it usually takes a long time of disobedience for the horrible results to come upon us.
Due to His grace, the turn to victory and positive results usually happens very quickly, in just a “little time.”
He will “subdue” the evil factors (enemies) ruining our lives, if we “submit” to Him. We submit; He subdues.
This is more than just blessing; it is victory over evil.
God wants to bless us, and He has the ability. But He demands our free-will cooperation with His will.
All the good things that God has planned for us are dependent on our willingness.
God has a long and documented history showing His benevolence and omnipotence, as demonstrated in the Exodus from Egypt.
God desires to fill us with every kind of provision and prosperity – whatever we ask; so He says, “open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
So why has this not happened? Why are we not experiencing all the goodness and blessings of God?
The answer is that we have not listened to or obeyed His voice. Our lack of listening and lack of obedience have stopped God’s blessings from coming into our lives.
It is not just our “lack” of obedience, but that we did not want Him, His instructions or His involvement in our lives.
Not only that, but we stubbornly rejected Him.
God would have just kept blessing and persuading us. But since we continually and consistently refused every attempt to gain access to our hearts, He had no choice but to let us go in our stubbornness, sinfulness, and selfishness.
We thought we knew better than God, so we followed “our own counsels.”
God’s will is to bless us. Our human will rebelled and rejected – again and again. It was our will against His will.
Yeshua exemplified this in His own prayers: “May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10) and “Not my will be done but Yours” (Matthew 26:39, 42).
If we change our stubborn heart against God to a submissive heart toward Him, everything else will change around us.
