The following was a story the Lord Jesus related to His disciples. It pertains to some of the lame excuses many gave for not obeying Him.
“And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.”~ Lk. 14:18-20
When just a young evangelist, while attending a revival meeting at my home church, I heard an old country preacher preach on the above texts. He entitled his sermon, “Two Morons and a Hen-Pecked Husband.” He went on to say anyone who purchases land without seeing it, and a man buying oxen before proving them, is a moron. And he added, a man who uses his wife as an excuse for not doing God’s Will is a hen-pecked husband, as the old-timers would say.
Moses argued with God that he was not “eloquent, but slow of speech.” But Stephen, in the New Testament, tells us“…he was mighty in words.” And Jeremiah’s excuse was he was but a child, this coming from a grown man who was doing quite well in speaking to God. In each instance we find the Lord telling his servant that whoever He calls, He prepares and equips.
It is a serious thing to excuse oneself to God. It is not a trifling matter. It is sin! And by the way, His blood doesn’t cleanse excuses; it cleanses sin. So, if we have been making lame excuses before Him, we need to confess it as such.
“Never allow the thought, ‘I am of no use where I am.’ You are certainly of no use where you’re not.”~ Oswald Chambers
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