How To Avoid Unnecessary Stresses In Your Life

What if you tell your child to do something and they choose not to do it?   How would you feel?   What would you do?   It wouldn't lessen your love for your child but it would make you feel somewhat disappointed.   You wouldn't give up on your child but you would try to continue to lead them, guide them, and direct them.  

Understand our relationship with God.   He is our Father and He gives us instruction and guidance.   Just like we instruct and guide our children.   It is His hope that we would obey Him in order to avoid some unnecessary stresses in life.    It is our choice as to whether we will obey Him or not.   

Some lessons in life have to be taught more than once.   Just as a teacher in a classroom has to sometimes repeat a lesson because the children didn't get the fullness of what was being taught the first time.    In life, we wonder why we have to experience some trials over and over again.   It's primarily because we didn't learn the fullness of what God was trying to teach us the first time.  

Life would be so easy if we just learn how to hear God, trust God, and obey God.   However, our innate nature wants to question everything.   When something is innate, it is instinctive and unlearned.    We have to learn how to immediately obey.   We have to not question what God is telling us to do.   We tend to even ask God, if it is Him that is speaking.  One way to ensure that what you are hearing is God is to weigh it by the Word.   If what you are hearing does not line up with the Word of God, then it's not from God.   God cannot go against His Word.  He and His Word are one.  

Make it a point today and every day to choose to obey.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?