Do It While It's Easy!

     I have a question for you today, my question is why do people set themselves up to be broken?
      Are they either ignorant or deceived? Sorry, I know ignorant is a harsh word, but what else could you call it? Ignorant isn't actually as bad as we have come to think of it, it simply means the lack of knowledge, I am ignorant in the field of chemistry, and many others for that matter.  So either people are ignorant to the fact that God is at the center of life and the creator of all things and without Him they are hopeless and helpless, or they have been deceived into not believing that He is all powerful or even exists?
     Either way, I think people that know God, do know that they need Him and they need as much of Him as they can get! They know they are hopeless and helpless without Him! They know that if they walk in their own power they are courting disaster! They know that outside of His grace they are future road-kill!
     But back to the question and people that don't know they may be future road-kill...are they deceived or ignorant? Maybe both?
     If the people are ignorant, we can help them with teaching. Ignorance is just the lack of knowledge, it's not the desire to not have the knowledge.
     The tougher of the two is the deceived group! They believe their thinking is right. To help these people will take a lot of prayer and a lot of wisdom from God. We will have to overcome the spirit of deception, pride, scoffing, arrogance, etc., but we have to start with prayer!
     The question that first started this thinking in my mind was, "Why do people set themselves up to be broken/" God doesn't want to have us go through trials to refine us, but for some of us, we create our own situation that "breaking" is the only way to get through to us. We won't take the easy road of refining, readily throwing away our bad ways and embracing God's good ways, we have to be broken to the point that God is our "last hope" and then we're willing to let go of the things that don't belong in our lives when we are God's children.
     You can see it in people's lives, they don't need or want God in their lives until they become ill, or until they have a family crisis or they have a financial crisis....it's always a crisis that finally gets their attention and then they are ready to hear about God's love.
     Why can't we learn the easy way? Why don't we turn from our selfish ways and embrace God? Why do we blame God when we are the ones that chose the path that led us to a crisis?
     This is where I run into trouble, too many questions! But maybe my questions can encourage someone to take the easy path, the path where the only issue is your own self will to wrestle with. but at least no crisis!
     Be encouraged to turn your will to God's will, let them run together, let them become one and avoid the crisis that you will eventually enter your life into without God's wisdom, and the self created crises that will drive you to your knees to find God's will. Do it while it's easy! God doesn't enjoy a crisis anymore than we do, His grace will often direct us around the problems in life that we can run ourselves into. Look to Him, Lean on Him and Trust Him, without Him we're all roadkill! ~