WORN HIM OUT

Today's reading: Malachi

"You have wearied the Lord with your words..." Malachi 2:17 NLT

There's nothing like a verse that stops you dead in your tracks.

One that grabs your attention.

One that grinds your morning routine to a screeching halt.

These are harsh words. Biting words. Hurtful words.

True words.

Let's be honest, Christian friends, even the best of us on our most godly of days have worn God out with our words--when what He wants to see is a little action on our part.

We pray the most King James-iest of prayers for light for the next step, when He wants us to step out in faith.

We plead in our prayer closets for things to change in our situations, but never ask for Him to make the necessary changes in our hearts.

We cry out for help quoting all the verses we have set to memory, but seldom for holiness.

We are well-versed at praying fire and brimstone over the heads of our enemies, but not so fluent in prayers of confession for our own personal sins.

We are all about asking, requesting, begging and providing Him with our wish lists, but praising?

Don't you imagine that just wears Him out?