Disobedient Children

Thought for Today - April 17
Disobedient Children
By: Robert A. Searles

Parents, how does it feel to go through the pain and anxiety of child bearing to bring children into the world, to nurture them through babyhood and adolescence, only to have them rebel against you and be disobedient and disrespectful?

     Think of how it must grieve God when he has gone through the great pain and expense of saving us and redeeming us, and causing us to be born into his family, only to see us disrespect him and rebel against his laws and commandments, how he must be hurt when we ignore him!

     It hurts tremendously when the one you love with all your heart slaps you in the face, as it were, and turns against you.  God loves his children with a love that far surpasses all human  understanding; Oh ! How he must be hurt when we ignore him!

     “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;: for the Lord hath spoken.  I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.  The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider.” Isaiah 1: 2 ,3.

  These words spoken primarily to Israel, are applicable to us today as well, for we are all guilty of rebelling and disobeying God our Father.  Even dumb animals do not treat their masters the way that we sometimes treat God.

     We attempt to honor God with lip service, so to speak, and with offerings of good works, but much of the time our hearts are far from him, and he does not receive from us the love, honor and respect that he deserves.

    ”To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the Lord:  I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of  he -goats.  When ye come to appear before me..  Who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts?”  Isaiah 1: 11, 12.

     God is not interested in our good works and good deeds, not even in our going to church or our tithes and offerings and service until our heart is in love and in tune with him.

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