Have you ever decided in life that you knew best? Maybe God took too long to answer a prayer and you took matters into your own hands. You had a need not met, an adventure to search out, a desire to fill, or some temptation led you into selfish ambitions. Then you prayed about it and ask God to bless your decision. Yet it still turned out to be your plan not His. You proceeded on your own. Time passed, mistakes happened, life continued. Then one day you found yourself on the wrong road. Now what do you do? Ever been there? I've found myself in this position a few times and while there found everyone else there also. Why did this happen and how is this corrected. I tried to answer that dilemma in my book Faded Purple. Here is my stab at it in a nutshell.
Read: Prov 4:20-27 ; 8; Ps 105: 1-5, James 3: 13-18
Words like prudence,knowledge, discretion, pride, arrogance, faithless (perverse) speech, sound judgment, wisdom's voice, fixed gaze, level paths, guarded heart, peacemaker, mercy, good fruits, appear in these verses. They have the answer.
When we go our own way and decided to be God of our lives we get lost and sometimes so lost we can't find our way back home. The web of deception is so tangled, the light so dim, the reap what we sow so difficult there seems to be no path in sight, no logical way through. What do you do then? What?
From Faded Purple:
The runner said: The treasure is not the gold in the chest. Not even the moments with Abba in those golden chairs. The real treasure is Him. The beauty of Him and His life living in us every day now and forever.
The young girl said: I had everything I ever desired but this letter from Abba meant more to me than everything I acquired.
The child said: If Abba says no then it's a no.
The crippled one said: What our heart needs is love, value and acceptance. Babylon offers this but can't deliver.
The wise gentleman said: My failures are ever before me, but even then He lifts me.
Purple said: Oh Abba I need you, please forgive me. My life is yours
Abba said: My promises are true. Welcome home child.
You see the King of Kings is Abba, our daddy. He will never let us down for He has decided to see us safely home.
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