My head will not refuse it…

By Sidharth Mohandas on September 28, 2007

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By Sidharth Mohandas

Some time back, a friend, Robert and I were having some discussions from the Bible. While we were talking, Robert corrected me about something I said. My initial response was to justify myself and to resist what he said. But then even as we were discussing this verse came to both of us:

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. [Psalm 141:5]

I realized that as Robert was correcting me he was anointing my head with oil. But to many of us, being corrected – especially by someone younger than us – is like a defeat. We tend to be “perfectionists” not wanting our faults or sins to be exposed. Many of us get offended when someone points to our faults. We don’t want to accept the fact that we can be on the wrong. And in the process we get into this self-righteous tone, justifying our acts with Scripture.

I recently heard a friend share with me something… her husband was throwing a fit and he justified his bad temper by saying, “Even Jesus got angry and he lambasted the people who were selling things in the temple”. Isn’t that amazing how we can use Scripture to justify our misconducts?

My friends, yielding to discipline and correction are means by which God can impart more of His Spirit to us. Will your head refuse it?

Now, let’s be sensible…don’t we want more of God’s anointing upon our lives? Then let’s be wise and accept correction. It doesn’t matter through whom correction comes… May be it’s through your sibling, or your child, or it could also be through your pastor. Which ever way it is, yield to it.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, But he who regards reproof is sensible. [Proverbs 15:5]