Something that I truly love about God is the fact that he does not beat around the bush. He is very direct. In that passages that I read tonight, he made it crystal clear that the Israelites will be SO blessed by following him! He basically tells them that they will have every kind of blessing if they stick with him. They will have every kind of contentment…everything good that they could imagine! All that they had to do was follow the list of commands that he laid out for them!
He also lays out the fact that not following him would make the Israelites miserable. He tells them that every part of life will be bad apart from him…basically hell on earth-worse than
Somehow…the Israelites end of choosing to ignore God’s commands over and over again. They get hurt, and truly feel the suffering of a life without God.
It amazes me that the Israelites could ever choose to walk away from God. After everything that he does for them…and after he tells them of the living hell that they will experience without him. Somehow…they still run away!
I don’t get it!
Someone once complained that God is too mean. How could anyone want his people to suffer?
What I want to remind you of tonight, is the fact that God is the only good that exists in the universe. He is the only thing that is worth chasing.
If we could be happy…or satisfied….without him, there would have to be something wrong with the universe.
When we are apart from God, we are apart from our purpose for living. We are sick and dying when we are not near our father.
For us to feel ok without God would be a lot like a man having leprosy. We would never know pain (which would be nice), but we would slowly die as we hurt ourselves over and over again.
All of these curses that God lays out for not following him, are like the pain that comes when we get too close to a fire…it reminds us that we are about to get hurt.
It reminds us to run screaming back to God…he is the only thing that can make us live.
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