Are you still living on the hope that as long as you are a decent human, that if you stay out of trouble, and live your life to the best of "your" abilities, that the Good Lord above will accept you with open arms? I know the answer, I used to say it all the time! "If God truly created all of us as His children, then He has to welcome all of His children home!"
Sound familiar? If that is your go to answer. Then I have news for you. You are a prodigal. I was a prodigal for a long time, without even knowing it. I twisted truths, just as many people do, to suit me. To make me feel like a better person. The more we cherry pick scripture, the more we think that we can live our own lives and dig into our own truths. The more we do that, the more the world sucks us in. We become numb to moral values. We become numb to hearing from the Holy Spirit. We slowly drift away from the God that can save us from all of our junk.
The more we tell ourselves, that God just wants us to be "HAPPY"! He wants us to live our "BEST" lives. The more we focus on ourselves, the further away we push God. The enemy makes these lies so tangible and real; he relishes in the art of making us believe that we are following God.
Here's some downright truth: God wants us to choose Him! He wants us to be happy! Living the life He designed for us! He wants us to live our "Best" lives! The one's that He designed for us! We must declare Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior over our lives for us to be His children! John 14:6 says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." That isn't through acknowledgement! That is through relationship! Making Him priority over everything in your life! Jesus first! Then your children. Jesus first! Then your marriage. Jesus first! Then your job. Without Jesus first! The rest falls apart. You can't be the spouse you need to be without Jesus. You cannot be the parent your children need you to be without Jesus. Your co-workers need you to have the fruits of the Spirit!
You have to choose to lay your earthly body down and pick up the "you" He created you to be! God is merciful! He is Almighty! He will be our final judge! He is waiting for your YES! For you to be "ALL" in.
Isaiah 66:4 says, "I will send them great trouble- all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned before my very eyes, and chose to do what they know I despise."
Are you listening?
Isaiah 66:22-24 says, "As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain, so will you always be my people, with a name that will never disappear,' says the Lord. 23. All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from month to month. 24. And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All who pass by will view them with utter horror."
Yes that was graphic! Are you rebelling? So many of you are so tangled in the lies that you don't even realize that you forgot the truth. You don't even realize you are indeed rebelling. You don't even realize that you have become a prodigal. God is waiting for you to come home! If you feel God tugging at your heart right now. Start praying. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the lies you have embraced. Ask Him to speak truth into your life. Start reading your Bible for truth. Keep on praying!
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