Must I be allowed to contract cancer in order for me to listen to the Lord’s Word for my life?  Do I have to destroy my family, my marriage, my finances and friendships before I will consider that my disobedience to my Christian faith is a destructive catalyst?  Must I holler at or ignore Almighty God for not giving me the contents of my own understanding, when His Word repeatedly educates me to the repercussions.  For I have not found faith until I have believed in and obeyed the Sovereign God of this universe.  If faith is hope and dependence upon things not yet seen, then I must equate God’s prophecy about my sin with those things yet to be seen.  Therefore my subsequent disregard for that “right” walk is evidence of my disregard for God’s Holy Truth.  Must I ask for continued discipline or may I at some point appreciate maturity and walk as a man in faith, no longer a boy?

What will it take for you to listen to the Truth that God has been delivering to you?  Must you lose your job, your husband, your children or your health to finally recognize His authority?  For we must understand that our God is a jealous God and He will not leave us alone in our disobedience, for this is the purpose of God’s enemies to be utilized as a tool to chase God’s children back into His arms.  He is a loving Father and He is also Holy, Righteous and True, meaning that He will never go back on His Word and His Word says that “He will chastise those whom He loves”.  Is that you?  Are you running from, ignoring or worse yet blatantly disobeying God’s Will for your life?

What must we lose or even worse yet, how long, dark and deep must our pursuance of sin become before we cry out to God for mercy and redemption?  Is your way working?  If it is by all means continue, but only until you realize how far it has separated you from God’s True purpose and protection.  Then run for the shelter of His wings.  I wish that I never even once considered disobedience, rebellion or ignorance, but alas that has been the fodder for my education.  For the Lord will never lead me into sin, but He will let me wander into it when I knew better all along.  For it by choice that we are saved, it is by choice that we determine a path of righteousness and obedience and it is by choice that we write God’s Word upon our hearts.  These are the greatest of our freedoms, choosing God above all else, including the most unrighteous of man’s opponents, “Self”.

Father, let me choose You above all else, never stopping to consider wandering into the wiles of deception and self aggrandizement.  Have mercy on me for being so difficult to train, may You walk with me every day so that I never cause harm and never venture outside your direction and will.  Give me grace to walk like Jesus.  In His name I beseech you.  Set them free Father, unleash them from the grasp of the control of Your enemies.