As your reading this blog post today, I want you to keep in mind two questions.
· When something goes wrong do you find yourself giving the enemy credit?
· Do you find yourself blaming, resenting, or even complaining about God for your circumstance?
During my recent studies in the book of Hosea, I was baffled at the ignorance that the Israelites had identified with. God brought them out of the land of Egypt, yet they walked away from him and his statutes to worship other gods. How could a people forget what God had done for them? How could they choose to praise an object of man’s creation? If you are not familiar with book of Hosea, the book is about the prophet Hosea chosen by God to speak judgement upon the nation. God is angry with the nation and even though they choose to turn their backs on him he still plans on redeeming his children.
The reoccurring issue within the book of Hosea is not that the enemy has attacked Israel nor that God is simply causing them to suffer for no reason. The Israelites had become complacent, proud, and ignorant towards God. They had become comfortable in leaning on their own understanding. But when you lean on your own understanding it leads to not leaning into God essentially leading down a road in which they became like the world partaking in worshipping idols. But we all know what happens when you decide to step out and no longer worship God. God is a jealous God, and he will lead you into the wilderness (Hosea 2:14) if that’s what it takes for you to get out of your own way.
See.. what I noticed about a lot of people including myself, is that sometimes when life isn’t going the way we plan it isn’t necessarily because (oh no, here we go) the enemy has done it again. It also isn’t because God wants to make us suffer (so stop complaining). Sometimes, the biggest issue is that we have become ignorant of what God has done for us. We have chosen to walk away from him, and instead have worshipped creation and not the creator. We make a choice to follow the enemy down a path…we choose to give him all the credit when things go wrong and blame God for what’s not going right.
My questions for today are:
· Is it really God vs. the enemy or is it you vs. God?
· Are you straying from God and following the world? If so, are you holding yourself accountable for your own actions?
· When something goes wrong do you find yourself giving the enemy credit?
· Do you find yourself blaming, resenting, or even complaining about God for your circumstances?
· Who is really to blame?
· Are you praising the enemy and cursing God?
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