Consequences Are Real

Sometimes our flesh thinks: I am invincible! We make the craziest choices that reflects our immaturity and our human condition. Have you ever done anything on a dare and ended up regretting it? I have as I flew off the back of a dirt bike, knowing I just made a bad choice. Have you ever done something spontaneously because you thought it was a “bright idea” and then it turned out so very wrong! I know I have. Some of my “bright ideas” were not so bright. To the enemy of our soul, he delights in our foolishness, it makes us an easy mark for him and his deception. We think we are so good, we can walk up to the pit of hell, and as we put ourselves in situations of temptation we should not be in, underestimating the enemy of our soul, thinking I am not going to fall in. Your on the ledge of hell, teetering back and forth, off balance, out of alignment with God, and you really think you won’t fall in? Are you that good or are you that prideful and foolish?

I am thinking of times in my past where I have been “hooked” by the enemy, deceived as these sudden “bright ideas” that came my way, where I took off impulsively and foolishly after them, so independent from God, and His wisdom and all the time getting that check in my spirit and ignoring it. I can do this… and then crash and burn! Sometimes I look back in “heavenly hindsight” of just how protected I was from my own prideful stupidity and all I can do is laugh at myself in disbelief of some of the dumbest things I did, and also at the same time be humbled by God’s protective care over me that I did not deserve.

God gave us common sense for a reason, and if you have to go against that common sense, then you know….this is not a good choice. What we do, where we go matters, and sometimes, we make dangerous choices that could hurt us and other people’s lives. Consequences are real. Life is real. It is not something to fool around with. Living casually when it comes to our choices is living dangerously. We need to take our choices seriously. We can make a choice that can affect someone the rest of their lives. Like drinking and driving, getting behind the wheel drunk, we could take someone’s life and ruin ours forever.

So many choices, so many consequences and we think, “it won’t happen to me” I can handle this temptation, I won’t fall. That is pride talking and pride goes before a fall. The enemy loves when we fall, and loves to make us a stumbling block for others and their faith. Believe me, I have been there and done that, fallen hard because I thought I could do life without God’s direction, outside of His ways.

We need to stay in God’s Presence, to stay in followship of Him, being navigated by God and His wisdom. The best choice we can make is a commitment to keep it personal with God, to stay in a vital-vertical relationship with Him and be navigated by Him. When we make a choice and hurt someone else, the consequences are real. When I was a young girl, one of my family members murdered two of my family members. Did she think that she would fall that far, when she stepped away from God and His ways, no, never in a million years? Don’t underestimate the power of evil. Bad choices compound and evil runs your life downhill fast! That decision of that one family member destroyed our family, fractioned it, and most of us never got over it and probably never will. The consequences of that one choice on our family were horrific for many years.

Hurt by the consequences of a bad choice, we go on, and God heals, but the pain of it stays with us as a reminder of how important our choices are. Consequences are real. We make good choices so that we don’t end up hurting someone and not being able to fix it. Sometimes we make bad choices and there is no way out of them. Be wise, be navigated by God and make the next right choice, because the consequences of a bad choice can affect so many people and they are very real consequences. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/you-are-warned/