NOT BEING LIKE A MULE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

"DO NOT BE LIKE THE HORSE OR LIKE THE MULE, WHICH HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you."
Psalm 32:9 (NKJV)

• A believer considers as a mule without understanding is someone or a person who is being dealt with or disciplined by God in order to get his or her attention; to correct or make adjustments about certain aspects of their life.

• Such a believer also could be said to be dull of hearing, in the Bible term or language (Hebrews 5:11).
• There are many believers in this state or category. They professed to be born-again, quite all right, but they are not sensitive or discerning.
• Such believers could not receive or get or deduce the messages being passed across to them, by God, through whatever they are passing through.
• Most of the things happening in such a person's or believer's life are messages meant to discipline or break him or her, mould and shape and transform them in their characters, but the person would not, because of the dullness in their hearing or discerning (Hebrews 5:11).
• Such a believer always blames or attributes whatever wrong that happens to them as the fault of someone or people around them. They would never see the hand of God in it, and they would not see these negative events in their lives as God's hand of discipline or shaping or moulding—they would rather blame someone as the cause.
• Such people or believers are considered to be like a mule without understanding (Psalm 32:9). They are being disciplined and wounded, yet they would not see it as God's hand of correction or discipline. In most cases, such people would not see God in it at all!
• Although God would not want a child of His, a believer to be like that, thus, the admonition in the text: "DO NOT BE LIKE THE HORSE OR LIKE THE MULE, WHICH HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING . . ." (Psalm 32:19 NKJV).

• God chastises and corrects, remoulds and reshapes, through discipline. It is one of the most effective tools, If not the main, which God uses in changing and transforming believers.

• Using discipline to effect a change in humans is usually effective and is always responded to quickly. It usually brings a desired result. However, God does not always want those who are His to suffer or pass through some things, challenges, but He could not help It because of humans' rebellious nature.
• Correction through discipline or chastisement always yield a good result: "FOR THE TIME BEING NO DISCIPLINE BRINGS JOY, BUT SEEMS SAD AND PAINFUL; yet to those who have been trained by it, AFTERWARDS IT YIELDS THE PEACEFUL FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS [right standing with God and a lifestyle and attitude that seeks conformity to God’s will and purpose]" (Hebrews 12:11 Amps).
• This method is the major way through which God breaks or reshapes whoever He purposes to use for an assignment. The method is for every believer in Christ Jesus.
• So, for discipline or chastisement to be minimal or less severe or stringent; cooperation, prompt obedience, and a changed heart are expected or required from a believer who is being trained by God (Leviticus 26:14-16,21-28).

• The Admonition in our text is, a believer should not be like a horse or a mule that needed to be harnessed or yoked with bit and bridle (Psalm 32:9), before it could be put into action or service—understand what to be done.

• In other words, a believer should not be like animals that needed to be flogged or forced before they obey and do the right thing.
• One of the signs that shows or indicates that you are rigid is, you would discover that God's hand is always severe on you whenever you missed it on whatever you are expected to do.
• A rigid person with a strong Will would always receive severer discipline or chastisement in his or her walk with God.
• Human's Will which is a part of his or her soul is the most difficult part to get to oblige or agree with whatever God intended to do in, or through, a believer's life.
• Someone with a strong Will would always receive severer discipline or chastisement than any average believer who is bendy or pliable.
• This is the reason why some believers usually face a lot of challenges, just because they are rigid and strong-headed; more force or pressure would have to be applied on them before they yielded and summited to God's plan and Will for their lives.

• The intention of God is not to annihilate the human Will, thought, and emotion, but to transform them to be under the control of His own Will or Word or plan for each individual believer.

• God wants your thought or mind, Will, and emotion, to be submissive to Him—be under His guide and control.
• Note: If God took away or annihilated the human soul that comprises the Will, mind or thought, and emotion; humans would not be different from a robot. God still wants every human to be able to use his or her mind or thought, emotion, and Will, but under His guide and control or influence.
• Since the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, lives on the inside of your spirit, the inward Man or newly created human spirit; thus, He wants your thought or mind, emotion, and Will, to be directed and control from there—your spirit where the Holy Spirit dwells.
• You are free to use your Will, emotion, and thought, but under the guidance of the Holy Spirit through your recreated human spirit. Thus, If your Will is contradictory to His own Will for you on whatever you wanted to do, He would not support It, and such a thing would be made difficult to achieve or accomplish.
• God will not render a believer's mind, emotion, and Will useless after being saved, but He would want him or her to align their souls which is the custodian of these three components—mind, will, and emotion—to agree with His own plans.
• It is when this is not agreed with that the rod of discipline or chastisement would be applied. The believer who refuses and rigidly wants to have his or her way would be made to Will or agree with whatever the plan of God is: "FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE" (Philippians 2:13 NKJV).

"FOR God is working in you, GIVING YOU THE DESIRE AND THE POWER TO DO WHAT PLEASES HIM."
Philippians 2:13 NLT

"FOR it is God who is working in you, ENABLING YOU BOTH TO DESIRE AND TO WORK OUT HIS GOOD PURPOSE."
Philippians 2:13 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

• God will make you to Will and to do whatever pleases Him. He would not necessarily force you, but would create the atmosphere and condition that would make or cause you to make the choice of doing whatever pleases Him.
• This is the life God wants every believer to live. The life is where whatever you chose to do is in line with His Word or principles—His plans and programmes concerning your life.

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.

• Whatever is not of God in your body that might be working against your wellness and good health, such is cursed and completely uprooted in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
• The hold being broken now will never rise again in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
  Peace!

STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. Ask that He will write your name in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).

• If you took the steps As highlighted above, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!