OUR CULTURE...WE....NO I.. chase the latest breeze if it blows a cool wind MY way..or if we...I.. catch hold of the idea that we...(I)... are missing out we...(I).. will begin a relentless pursuit..of what we think we should have ..deserve or will make us....(ME).. HAPPY. But thats just it....its only lasts for awhile...i dont know if you have ever been headed in the wrong direction in pursuit of someone ..or something that would cause you harm....did you stop??? did you hear a voice saying this is the way walk in it?? or did you continue on and now you are paying for your poor choice....I wonder....if we would just listen to GODS VOICE....HOW MANY DANGERS we would avoid AND HOW MUCH PAIN WOULD WE HAVE BEEN SPARED....We had just moved to Germany and we had nothing...we didnt know how to use the currency or even get public transportation. So we walked alot to wherever we needed to go...i was coming back from the px...aka...( military walmart) trudging throuh the snow with my 3 year old...my arms were full of stuff so i could not hold her..we were only half a mile away from our apartment but to a little one barley walking and freezing in the snow it might as well have been MT. EVEREST. She was crying and I just kept talking to her..she got distanced from me..because she was behind..i crossed a street in a quiet military project and kept talking...encouraging her to come on...my heart was breaking as i could hear her soft cries tover the muffled snow...then i struck me..we were apart i was already across the street....and she was Not! AND NOW A CAR WAS COMING...DOES HE SEE MY BABY....SHE IS STILL WAlking..just as i have told her..will he stop in time will he skid.....STOP I YELLED AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! SHE DID....AND THE CAR WHIZZED BY! Man what if she had not obeyed..or heard my voice....the pain....would have BEEN UNBAREABLE...I would have never forgiven myself.....something that could of so easily been avoided...when God speaks to us TO discipline us ..he is trying to avert pain..to keep us from hurting either him..or us...please listen for him..listen to him..is there something right now God has been speaking to you about....a practice that you need to stop because it is hurting you and your loved ones as well as him...PRAY ON THIS..are there circumstances you or others are in becaucse you fail to be disciplined by GOD? THINK...LOOK AROUND WHAT IS HE SAYING..SOFTEN YOUR HEART...AND TURN......TO HIS FACE AND LISTEN! PEACE..
Pro 3:11
My son, do not despise the LORD’s
discipline, and do not resent his rebuke,