Brute Beasts

Psalm 73:21-24
When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.


My daughter, Regann, informed me recently, as I was rinsing her hair in the bath while she tried to play, that I was "driving her nuts!" I couldn’t help but laugh at her complete and total honesty. Then I began to think about God as our heavenly Father, and the many ways we talk to Him.

We should be so thankful that we are allowed to go to God and be completely honest with Him. I (unfortunately) can’t count the number of times I have yelled at God, thrown a fit before Him, or even cursed at Him – "I was senseless and ignorant: I was a brute beast before" Him. While I’m not proud of how I acted, I can rejoice and praise God that I am allowed to go to Him however I’m feeling that day, and know that I won’t be struck by lightening, even if that’s exactly what I deserve.

I have to think that God likes it when we are honest with Him. I know I am always glad when Regann is honest with me about how she is feeling, because then I know what I’m dealing with. Granted, God can see our hearts, so He can see straight through any lies we try to throw His way. At least when we’re honest with Him, He can take us from there, "holding us by our right hands, and guiding us with His counsel."

I am just so thankful that we have a great and forgiving God! I praise Jesus that He is up in heaven at the Father’s right hand, in constant intercession for us. I sometimes wonder if it is His intervention on my behalf that keeps God from striking me dead, because of my wicked behavior toward Him. Regardless, God is good, He loves us, and He wants to "take us into glory" after all is said and done, even when we are "brute beasts" before Him. Amen, and praise God!