When you do
not yield to God’s spoken/written Word, you are compelled to speak to
the issues of life under your own power, by your own strength, with your own
words, without the aid and support of God.
Isn’t
that how most things get messed up in the first place.
No one of
sets out to go against God.
All the
ugliness of life is learned behavior.
No one
starts out thinking - hey someday I’m gonna be a drug addict - or hey let’s go
get drunk, maybe we can crash our car or hit some innocent bystander.
No one
takes their first drink or their first puff on a cigarette or marijuana and
says, “my that has a delightful taste.”
No, our body, mind and spirit all cringe at the smell and the taste of
harmful or intoxicating substances.
You have
got to be taught to like it.
Without
someone standing over us and egging us on, we would all turn down drugs and
alcohol and cigarettes as if it were poison. We
wouldn’t take the chance on anything that might cause us harm if it hadn’t been
for someone patting us on the back and telling us, “it’ll be alright.”
No one
starts out thinking that they will someday spend more on lottery tickets than
they do milk and bread for their kids.
No one
starts out thinking that a little flirting around will end up in divorce with a
restraining order to keep them away from their own children.
No one
sets out to misrepresent a product or service.
Over time they are desensitized to believe that the customer deserves to
buy a fraudulent product.
Kids
aren’t born with a propensity to bring guns to school and shoot their teachers
or other students. You’ve got to exposed
to a whole lot of evil before considering such a grotesque act of evil.
Teens
don’t start out on a Friday night thinking they will get pregnant or be given a
drug to seduce them by someone that says they love them more than their own
mother.
When you do
not yield to God’s spoken/written Word - little by little you will stray from
God’s plan for your life. It is not all at once, but little by little. Do you agree?"
Excerpt from God Thinking LXVI - The Whole Person Yields by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
Excerpt from God Thinking LXVI - The Whole Person Yields by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
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