PUSH
Today's reading: Romans 1-3

"But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves." Romans 1:18 NLT

Push-to press against with force in order to drive or impel; to move or endeavor to move away or ahead by steady pressure.

Here is the conversation from just a few days ago--

Me: Hey, Dad, you'll never believe the YouTube video this guy at work showed me today!

Dad: What was it?

Me: It showed a team of draft horses pulling a loaded concrete truck out of a spot it was stuck in. It was amazing! Those horses barely even seemed to strain as they did it! The guys and I calculated that the truck and the concrete probably weighed 60,000 pounds or more!

Dad: Hmm. They didn't pull it out.

Me: Yes, Dad, they did--I saw the video.

Dad: They pushed it out.

Me: No, Dad...they were in the front of the stuck truck, they pulled it out.

Dad: They pushed it out.

Me: No, they pulled it.

Dad: Horses push, they don't pull. They push against their harness and the harness pulls the load.

Me: Oh.

Boy, oh boy, did that conversation come back to  me today as I read over this verse!

I can easily see why so many of us think sins, the world, the enemy 'pull' us away from God--and yet, we allow those things to strap us down, harness our power and chain us to the point that we begin to push the truth of God away!

We get strangled by their cords.

We get tripped up by their intrusion on our lives.

We feel trapped by them, only because we've allowed them in to our lives.

In an effort to live with, approve or okay these 'harnesses' we push against what we have learned from the Holy Spirit to be right and true.

We need to completely remove the harness of sin. Take it off. Put it aside. Refuse to allow it on our hearts and souls and minds ever again. Stop it from giving us the desire to pushaway from God!