Our Own Worst Enemy!

Reading:  Isaiah 49, 50
My Verse:  50:11  "Behold, all you [enemies of your own selves] who attempt to kindle your own fires [and work out your own plans of salvation], who surround and gird yourselves with momentary sparks, darts, and firebrands that you set aflame! . . . . But this shall you have from My hand; you shall lie down in grief and in torment."

Here it is  - ever so plain.  This is what happens to those that reject God's Love, that seek their own way.

Revelation 1:3 says "Blessed are those who heed My words."  Lord, I cannot just read Your Word, I must also "heed" it.  This reminds me of a lady that I had in an adult education class I was teaching.  She was a lovely Christian lady.  She read through her Bible twice each year with two different guides.  She strove constantly to draw closer to You and it was so evident in her life.  One Sunday after one of our adult ed class sessions she came up to me and said, "I finally get it!"  There was a plaque on the wall that said, "LOVE IS AN ACTIVE VERB".  We had been studying nouns and verbs.  She was so excited.  She said the plaque never made any sense to her but now that she knew what a verb was she understood that God's Love was an active thing.  It was a great Aha! moment for her. 

Lord, help me to not just read your Word as an empty exercise because anything that is of You is alive and active!  Though you would have me to be organized and prepared, I know that I must ever seek out your guidance in all things and not be so dependent on my own plans that I am devastated when they don't work out.  I don't want to become my own worst enemy!  Thank you for this reminder.

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!