Listen to your Donkey!

Numbers 21-23; Mark 6,7

“Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?’…Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.”

Numbers 22:28, 31

Sometimes our donkey can see what we cannot see. When our stubborn self-will pursues a direction that is dangerous or outside of God’s best, God will use circumstances or the most unlikely of people to get our attention. Our computer, our car, our phone can “lie down” to get our attention. When wealth or influence or lust entices us, God still uses “donkeys” to get our attention. In his mercy, the Lord warned Balaam, but he still stubbornly tried to manipulate the will of God. The end of this path was destruction.

Will we listen to our donkey rather than beat it?

“Lord Jesus, deliver me from evil. I humble myself before you and choose to obey your voice, for your glory.”