June 8

“...if you will this day ‘put yourself at the feet’ of that person who is so difficult for you even to think about, you will find,.... you actually feel your faith grow....Bow your stiff neck to her or to him and then thank God in your heart for the closer look you’ve just been given into His heart.”  Eugenia Price, S.P.S., 6/8

I wondered how submitting myself to another in this way would give me a closer look into God’s heart, but then I remembered how Jesus called the people of his day stiff-necked.  And then I saw Him hanging on the cross for those same people.  This is the glimpse into God’s heart I am meant to see.  Whenever I refuse to put myself at the feet of a person I’m feeling stiff-necked toward I must remember that Christ submitted Himself to pain and suffering for stiff-necked me.  And I must submit myself to stiff-necked people as well.  Eugenia also points out that we can’t do it on our own and that God didn’t intend for us to.  It’s not a matter of our mustering up the fortitude to do it.  It’s a matter of  relying on His Holy Spirit in us.  In fact, if we would just submit ourselves to Him completely, I’m sure we’d “find it in our hearts” to submit ourselves totally to others.  Lord, I can feel the muscles in my neck relaxing already.

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.”  Acts 7:51a