Don’t get pulled down 

Jen planted those peas with the sunflowers so that the peas could have something to climb on and pull themselves up. Instead they ended up pulling those sunflowers down!

Sounds a lot like what wrong influences do and also like we do to ourselves if we let wrong desires take the lead in our life. 

Wrong desires and temptation have a way of making bad things sound good and wrong things sound right. 

Numbers‬ ‭26‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭says, “And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.”

They took a census because God told them to. Good stuff!

But one time King David took a census for a selfish reason. 2 Samuel 24:10 shows his repentance: “And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

It was wrong because it disobeyed God. We say that God knows best, but do we live that out?

Doing the right thing in the wrong time is wrong. And doing a good thing for a bad reason makes it all bad. 

It can be hard to wait on God’s timing, wait on His plan, or simply follow His boundaries, but He is calling us up to something higher. Our wrong desires will just bring us down. 

Today’s Bible reading is Numbers 26.