Stop Trying To Be A Hero And Let God Be God

Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.

Do you ever think you’re doing God a favor? You ever think you’re doing the righteous thing? That surely this is noble. Sometimes we are our own stumbling block. God says in Isaiah 55: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” This morning while reading Matthew 16, I was reminded that sometimes we can get in the way of what God is trying to do by being self-righteous.

Jesus predicts his death and Peter says “Never, Lord! “This shall never happen to you!” This is a normal thing to say to someone who you don’t want to die. Someone who is your teacher. Someone who you want to protect. I think we can all agree that this is a noble thing to say. But Jesus responds saying, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Sometimes we try to play God by doing what we think is the noble thing. The danger with this is that we have no idea what God is doing. Just because it doesn’t look like it should with our human eyes does not mean that a great purpose or protection is at not at hand.

God warned me to stay away from a certain situation back in August. When the time came for the situation to play out, I was ALL UP IN the situation and it affected me. BAD. I thought I could take the situation on. I thought I was God, meanwhile God had my protection in mind. God is a compassionate God and is helping me through it, but I wonder how much I could have avoided if I stopped trying to play God.

Sometimes we don’t know what God is doing, but that’s the beauty of faith and obedience. Faith to trust that God knows what he’s doing and obedience to see it through. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but let God be God. Let him cook as the youngins would say.

And that y’all is the 211