Are We Playing Ourselves, Because Of Ourselves?
Obadiah 1:3-4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you dweller in the refuges of the rock [Petra, Edom's capital], whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground? 4Though you mount on high as the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.
There is a time in most people’s life that someone takes advantage of them, hurts them, does them wrong and yet that individual still seem to prosper. It seems that their wrong doing and their evil ways and intent seems to keep them covered and above being touched or reaping any consequences to or for their actions. I know a very special person and they are a sweet individual, their heart is to help and to do what is right, but because of that they have been taken advantage of, manipulated and hurt deeply by individuals that are extremely self-serving, manipulative and controlling. I know another young person that is suffering at the hand of a family member one that should be in their life to protect and ensure that they are healthy and happy, but instead, they are the one that is causing the pain and suffering, and adding to an already challenging adolescence. It is people like these that when you pray, you want to ask God, what in the world is going on up there; we want to ask are the scales of justice off, and God aren’t you seeing all of this foolishness and what appear to us as unfair.
This is when understanding God and trusting Him in all things really comes into play in our lives. I remember my Grandma James telling us that God will bring those high places down, and that we didn’t need to pay people back, that God had them, we just needed to live according to His will and be obedient. This makes me think of TI song “Praying For Help,” the middle of the verse says, “On my knees I knelt… Still trying to find a way to accept… It ain’t a way I can help nobody…
Till I save myself… Technically I’m still a slave myself… I gotta climb out the grave myself …Man I played myself.” There will come a day, that every high thing that exalts itself, or themselves against the knowledge of Christ will be brought down. Many times we think we have gotten away with mistreatment of others and that we are living on top of the world, not realizing that we have deceived ourselves, played ourselves and displayed ourselves. We don’t understand that God sees everything that we do, our motives and the very intent of our heart as we do the things that we do. In Psalms 7:15 says, “He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed].” It is the trap that we set for others that becomes that trap that captures us, and often brings us to our demise. We should never aspire to ruin people’s lives or to do them harm, or set people up, or mistreat them, just for our pleasure, or even when we feel, we are warranted in our actions. I have seen too many people fall, at their own hands doing so. I have watched people who assumed that they had done their dirt and went on their merry way, and they would never suffer any consequences and then, God said no, and their life began to unravel, like and old sweater whose threads were loosened.
Till I save myself… Technically I’m still a slave myself… I gotta climb out the grave myself …Man I played myself.” There will come a day, that every high thing that exalts itself, or themselves against the knowledge of Christ will be brought down. Many times we think we have gotten away with mistreatment of others and that we are living on top of the world, not realizing that we have deceived ourselves, played ourselves and displayed ourselves. We don’t understand that God sees everything that we do, our motives and the very intent of our heart as we do the things that we do. In Psalms 7:15 says, “He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed].” It is the trap that we set for others that becomes that trap that captures us, and often brings us to our demise. We should never aspire to ruin people’s lives or to do them harm, or set people up, or mistreat them, just for our pleasure, or even when we feel, we are warranted in our actions. I have seen too many people fall, at their own hands doing so. I have watched people who assumed that they had done their dirt and went on their merry way, and they would never suffer any consequences and then, God said no, and their life began to unravel, like and old sweater whose threads were loosened.
It pays to play by God’s rules, not by those we create in our heads and mind, because our laws and justice will become the laws and justice we have to answer to. God instructs us in His Word, in Luke 6:31, “And as you would like and desire that men would do to you, do exactly so to them.” We desire to be treated well, but yet, we neglect the fact that it is the things that we give out that will come back to us. It is what we have sown that we will reap the harvest of, and eat the fruit of. We need to sincerely pray for help, pray that God would shine a light on the inward part of us, so that He can know us and that we can really know ourselves and be truthful, in order for us to be healed and delivered from what is causing us to treat others, in a manner that is undesirable in the sight of God and in ways that we ourselves would never desire to be treated. It is time to get right with God, others and ourselves, the fields are ready to be harvested, but what is it that will be your harvest? Well, that would depend on what you have been planting!
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