Here is a bit of what we talked about last night... yeah its a bit heavy but yall can handle it...
Numbers 14 (take a quick read...or listen [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+14&version=NIV]) Tell me if this scenario rings a bell... You walk across campus like you do everyday and you see someone that you just got a gut feeling you need to talk to, the closer you get the more the Spirit pushes you to talk to them. What do you do? I wait for that "perfect moment" or I say God please no that is just weird. The moment passes and you turn back out of guilt and try to catch up with them , either you do and its a weird conversation or you don't catch up. Why does that happen, we did what God wanted right? HA absolutely not, God is a god of order not of chaos. You don't do things out of His time because he wont be there with you. This is part of His grace. How? Well He lets you make yourself look dumb so you learn never to do it again (He is a perfect Dad). God told the Israelites, hey I am going to take you to a place flowing with all that you need, people will come up to stop you but I will be with you and carry you in. GOD SAYS THIS IS HIS PLAN AND HE WILL HELP YOU WITH IT! What do the Israelites do? Yeah... they decide not to do it. So God says fine new plan go back, I ain't coming with ya. Then feeling guilt they run back to the promised land to take it, and they die. Anytime we go against what God wants expect pain, Proverbs 13:24 24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them. It gets better...or worse... depending on how you look at it. Their disobedience does not just affect them, it hurts their kids to. I am not saying that all sin hurts other people, but there are a lot of instances where it does. What if our conversation with that person walking by us was the point where they decided to follow God? Before I came to OSU I lost one of my friends who was in a lot of my classes from Kindergarten to 12th grade. He got wasted, rolled off the road, and was not able to get out of his car which ignited. You know how in Genesis God says he can hear Able's blood cry out? Well, at Aaron's funeral and still to this day I can hear him screaming wondering why I never told him about Christ, why I just assumed that because we lived in Mustang, Oklahoma that he knew Christ. Yeah I realize others could have done it as well, but thats the thing they did not and I had more chances then they did. I hope yall never hear someone crying from the pit. You can argue with me that he made it to heaven but I knew the guy.... I know that was tough for some of yall because now you are thinking of the missed chances. Don't beat yourself up about it though, learn from the mistake. God loves them more and will give them all the chances they need. Learn from the past and make the future better, don't skip those chances God gives you. You have the gift of eternal life that needs to be shared...
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