Day 65

Just a very short reflection this morning, and it is on Balak, not Balaam. Balak’s desire is for God to serve him. He wants to control God and for God to do his biding and he is utterly frustrated when that does not happen. He is not really a theist, he is more of a man looking for a personal magician to fulfill his own desires. If God (or gods) don’t serve him well, then he is angry and frustrated.

I think we can have the same temptation to try and control God and ask him simply to bless what we want blessed and to curse what we want cursed. But that’s not the way of the Christian life. We are called not to conform God to our image, but rather to be conformed to his.