DOWNFALL FROM BLESSINGS

Psalms 106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Can we be trusted with God’s blessings?

When life rolls like a song, we seem to forget God; we think it robbery to enjoy the blessings of His grace and love (Philippians 2:6). Like naughty children, we promise to obey the rules, then run to our own devices. We get in trouble, cry for deliverance, and when God bails us out we go right back to it. It’s a wonder to realize how, in his carnal state, man prefers sin and hell than God’s blessings in heaven.

As a dog returneth to his vomit the Bible says, so the fool returneth to his folly (Proverb 26:11). The pages of history, not only of Israel’s history, but that of the world, bear witness to this fact. We seem to never learn from our past. We have a perverted hunger for territorial wars, for control of strategic resources, and for an unhealthy independence from God’s way of life. Israel was time again brought under the yoke of its enemies because of his disobedience after God had delivered them. It almost seems like a microcosm of the spiritual attitude of the whole world. It is also an extension of the way each one of us handle our lives.

We cannot do very much in the realm of politics, but as individuals, we have the power to change the world. Using Murphy’s law, (the fact everyone of us has influence on at least 250 people in our lives) let us decide, each one of us, as individuals, to buck the tide of the accepted way; to be thankful for God’s blessings, prefer heaven than hell, and live a life that “walks the Bible’s talk”.

Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.