The Donkey's In Your Life

Numbers 22-23:30

In this story we see that Balaam had become a prophet for hire. He was selling himself to the highest bidder and was going to use his God given gift to curse the people of God instead of bless them. The angel of the Lord confronted Balaam’s act of rebellion and by the grace of God and a spiritually minded donkey, Balaam’s life was spared and he repented and turned back to what God had called him to do.

There is a great lesson to be learned from the donkey in the story, when God opened the donkeys mouth the last thing the donkey said was “have I ever done anything like this before?” This is a great lesson, because all of us have people in our lives that love us, help us and seemingly always support us. So when one of those individuals begin to buck you or a decision that you are making, you need to stop and ask your self what is really going on. If your lifetime supporter is now resisting you, you need to ask God to show you what they are seeing that you have become blinded to. Balaam’s donkey resisted him because he saw something Balaam did not see. Many times our loves one see things that we don’t see and we need to learn to listen and pray, because they may actually save your life. So lets thank God for all the faithful donkeys in our lives.