Mar 31 2009
How Many Times Have I Told You…
Remember when your parents said this? Can you hear their tone of voice? Have it said it to your own children? It’s easy to empathize with our parents when we’re in the same place, isn’t it?
Well, imagine how God feels when He loves us and has only our best interests at heart, only to have us rebel the way some of our children have.
How can we say we love Him when we refuse to receive His love and wise counsel?
Well, the day is coming, and is, in fact, upon us, when we will account for going our own way. We’ve presumed upon grace too long, and the day of reckoning is at hand.
How many times have we been told of our roots? Of the pilgrims who came from other nations because of the lack of religious liberty and freedom to worship? Of the people who gave their lives to purchase these freedoms for us? Have we lightly esteemed them or valued them as gold? And the bigger question is: are we willing to fight to hold onto them, or will we let them slip away and scarcely notice?
How many times have we been told that our secret sins will find us out? That we can hide nothing from God?
Have we listened when He convicted us of sin, righteousness and judgment? Or have we shaken our heads and given Him a look of annoyance, and walked away?
We’ve argued about which sin is the worst for far too long, rationalizing and excusing our own sins, majoring on the minors instead of realizing that we will be judged depending on whether or not we have a personal relationship with God. Whether we bowed our hearts to Him.
We’re at a crossroads, and our eternal destiny will depend on which fork in the road we take. It’s our choice, but can we be trusted to receive wisdom and salvation, or will we throw it back in His face, demanding our own way?
Can we truly say, “For me to live is Christ?”
Only time will tell.
Because of His great love,
Nancy
