If there is one thing that would seem to be self-evident, it is that we cannot fight against God and His will, and win. He will prevail and His purposes will be accomplished. Yet we resist God’s work in numerous ways. Sometimes we adamantly resist His will for our life. We know He wants us to do something and we refuse. We don’t want to be uncomfortable, or we are afraid, or we feel inadequate, so we say ‘no.’
At other times we resist God by not immediately obeying what He tells us. We allow our life to be consumed with cares and commitments until there is no way to follow through with what He told us. We explain that we would obey if only we were able to. We see this as being too busy. God calls it rebellion.
At other times we are willing to obey, but only on our terms and under our conditions. We modify God’s instructions until they become palatable to us. We may be satisfied, but God is not.
God would do so much more if only we would stop resisting Him and wholeheartedly obey Him. God might ask us the same question He asked Saul: “Why do you keep kicking against the goads?”