When we want something and we don’t get it.

When it doesn’t seem fair.

When it just doesn’t make sense.

When one reads 1 Corinthians 3, we can see Paul take his people through the process. The ones he are addressing has apparently put hope in the riches of the world. There are times we put our faith in the approval of man. Sometimes we base things on our promotion, where we stand in the pecking order, maybe we try to compare ourselves to others.

I have done this in the past, I know the penalty it could bring to a person. The turmoil inside a heart, the thoughts in lack of consideration for all the work I had done, all of the achievement I had made. Oh, the justification we seek.

Psalm 26:2 says: test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.

If we were to follow the advice of the Psalmist, we would want Go to try us, to search our hearts and minds for purity, for the proper intentions. I do not know about you, but I look on some of my past to which I regret, the times I preferred myself over others, the times I
have had the wrong heart, when I wanted good service, or a better deal, or a perceived
promotion.

I wonder what God thinks of my heart when I act this way.

I think about my daughters, how they act when they don’t get their way.

We cannot control what God does in our lives, but we can allow ourselves to be used by Him.