Are you conscious?
Of course I am conscious you think ... I am not asleep... but are you fully awake?
Do you decide your every move?
Do you control your every thought?
Or does your mind wander?
Are you distracted by the world and drawn off course?
What are your plans for today?
This week?
This month?
This year?
Your life?
Do you have any?
Do you write them down?
Do you follow them?
Do you pray?
Perhaps you have thought you would like to lose weight.
Maybe you thought you would like to be fit.
Or maybe you thought you would like to learn a foreign language.
These are not plans.
These are fantasies.
Fleeting whimsical thoughts that can recur but have no substance.
Why not?
Because you are not committed to them.
They are similar to...
If I won the lottery I would...
Meanwhile your life passes you by without you noticing until you are on your deathbed and you reach out to God and say... What?
Sorry?
Why?
Where were you God when I needed you to inspire me?
For GOD so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
JOHN 3:16
Where were you GOD when I needed you to save me?
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
MATTHEW 11:28-30
Where were you GOD when I was lost and alone?
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
PSALM 23:4
Where were you GOD?
Where were you?
GOD?
Answer me!
Please!!!
Is this what happens?
You cry out to GOD and you cannot hear his voice?
Or do you just ignore him?
Turn your back on GOD?
How can there be a GOD when life is so cruel and people are so evil?
Do you even want GOD to answer?
The Lord responded to Job:
“Will the person who finds fault with the Almighty correct him?
Will the person who argues with God answer him?”
JOB 40:1-2
6 Then the Lord responded to Job out of a storm,7 “Brace yourself like a man!
I will ask you, and you will teach me.8 “Would you undo my justice?
Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous?
9 Do you have power like God’s?
Can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 Then dress yourself in majesty and dignity.
Clothe yourself in splendor and glory.
11 Unleash your outbursts of anger.
Look at all who are arrogant, and put them down.
12 Look at all who are arrogant, and humble them.
Crush wicked people wherever they are.
13 Hide them completely in the dust,
and cover their faces in the hidden place.
14 Then even I will praise you
because your right hand can save you.
JOB 40:6-14
It is not our place to question GOD.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
ISAIAH 55:8-9
GOD is there if we want him.
GOD will reveal his majesty to us if we turn to him.
GOD will guide us if we choose.
GOD will lead us if we agree.
GOD will save us from a wasted life if we love him.
GOD will turn off the autopilot if we turn to him.
It is our choice.
Choose God.
CHOOSE
GOD
It is a conscious choice.
Turn to God in prayer.
Read the Bible.
Obey GOD.
Switch off the autopilot.
Become conscious.
Ask GOD to lead you.
Pray for the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Pray for the courage of the Holy Spirit.
Pray for wisdom.
Pray.
Pray.
Pray continuously.
DEAR FATHER GOD IN HEAVEN WE PRAY THAT YOU HELP US FIND COMFORT, HELP AND SUPPORT IN YOU. LORD GOD GUIDE OUR LIVES AND HELP US CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH. MAKE CONSCIOUS LORD EVERY THOUGHT WE HAVE AND LEAD US IN YOUR WILL. IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME WE PRAY. AMEN.