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A little more than 150 years ago, General Robert E. Lee was camped approximately ten miles from General Stonewall Jackson. Lee sent a message to Jackson, saying that he wanted to meet with him at his convenience.
The next morning, while Lee was eating breakfast, Jackson appeared at his tent. Lee asked Jackson, “What are you doing here? I didn’t mean for you to come immediately. It wasn’t urgent. Did you not read what I said? I said, ‘at your convenience.’ You unnecessarily rode through a terrible snowstorm to get here.”
Stonewall Jackson responded, “General Lee, your slightest desire is my greatest command.”
Friends, most of life’s challenges and temptations could be defeated if we possessed the same attitude toward God. What better disciples would we be; what more committed soldiers in the Lord’s army would we be if we decided to make God’s “slightest wish our greatest desire.”
Steve Higginbotham