{"id":589,"date":"2016-08-30T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T03:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2016-08-30T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T03:16:52","slug":"the-wrong-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/the-wrong-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judges 2:11
\nAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord<\/strong> and served the Baals. And they abandoned the Lord,<\/strong> the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other god<\/strong>s, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger<\/strong>. They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them<\/strong> for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress<\/p>\n

1 Kings 15:26
\nHe did what was evil in the sight of the Lord<\/strong> and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin<\/p>\n

2 Kings 17:14
\nBut they would not listen, but were stubborn,<\/strong> as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why is it we would willingly choose to abandon God? \u00a0Why would we choose to to be stubborn and not list to Him? \u00a0Does it ever work to abandon what God has called us for? \u00a0History will tell us NO. \u00a0If we would be honest I am sure we would say it does not work out for the present either and if we believe the smallest truths in scripture we know it does not work out for the future. This I do know – If you believed trust in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ for your sins –\u00a0If you choose to keep your heart desire with a single purpose to honor and glorify God – If you choose to continually seek Him first – If you choose to remain humble before Him – If you choose to stay in His word – If you continually choose to listen for His leading – If you choose to obey His leading – If you choose to learn to deny self – you will find, joy, peace, love, hope, grace, kindness, gentleness, patience and\u00a0purpose for this life. Every day we make a chose on\u00a0who we will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. Judges 2:11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them … Continue reading “The Wrong Choice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[966,964,959,960,432,558,965,962,963,961,430],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abandoned-the-lord","tag-against-them","tag-became-false","tag-did-what-was-evil","tag-followed","tag-hand-of-the-lord","tag-provoked-the-lord","tag-sight-of-the-lord","tag-terrible-distress","tag-walked","tag-would-not-listen"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}