Anything Else But You

     Sometimes that is how we live towards God isn't it. God I know You told me to do this, but right now I'm not feeling Your word, so I'm going to listen to anything or anyone else but You.....

     Oh man how deadly that is. To quench the Spirit of God and go about our fleshly ways. It always lands us in trouble, and sometimes it just leads us to death, and I literally mean death. If we look in God's word we see people taking their focus and trust off of God and putting in many different things. Things that lead them to dark places of sin or to death.

     Now obviously if you are reading this right now you have not been lead to your death, but lets take a look at one huge moment in God's word when someones unwillingness to follow God, the same God that time and time again had rescued his people and done great things before him, led him to his death. 

1 Chronicles 10:13

13 Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word. He even consulted a medium for guidance,

    Lets look at what's going on here though. God had given Saul instructions, and not only did Saul disobey God's instructions, but he thought it would be okay to consult a medium for guidance. A medium being a person supposedly used as a spiritual intermediary between the dead and the living.... Someone who supposedly conjurs up spirits.

    Saul was no noob to who God is. The spirit of God had come upon him many times. He prophesied and God even brought Saul through great battles, but for some reason Saul stopped trusting God, and decided to trust anything else. This decision ultimately led him to his death. Saul was a great leader when he trusted in God, but the moment he started trusting himself, things just began to go downhill and straight into a pit of death.

This happens to us in our spiritual lives

     When we are trusting God, we see Him bring us through the greatest of battles in life. We see Him empower us to do great things. When we trust God we walk with Him on this epic adventure to change eternity for lost souls.

     When we trust anything else, we may see what looks like progress for a moment, but the walls will surely come crumbling down on us. 

     We see the death of ministries when people trust in themselves. We see the lost stay lost when people trust in themselves. We see Christians fall away from the church when people trust in themselves. We will see people literally just DIE telling God "No I won't trust you! I will find someone else to take advice from." 

     Trusting in ourselves doesn't just lead to sin. It IS sin! When we say to God "I won't trust You!" We are sinning, and it only gets darker and darker from there. We lead ourselves toward death, all the while Christ still stands saying "Turn around and follow me." The more we refuse to listen to that call, the darker it gets for us. Rightfully so. If we separate ourselves from the source of light in a dark world then we only end up in darkness.

The Beauty of this Situation

Though we lead ourselves into darkness

when we turn around in repentance

Jesus is there!

He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us 

from all unrighteousness

Even in the dark 

we can still see the light

all we have to do is turn around