He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food. -- Job 36:16 There is not a command in the Bible that is not for our own good. How many people throughout time have accused God of trying to burden them down with difficult living, when in reality He is trying to free us to live an abundant life. You would think that our creator would simply lay it all out and if we make the wrong choice, and take the wrong path, that he would simply say, "oh well, I have plenty more where that one came from." But He doesn't do that. When we are in distress, even from our own wrong choices, our God attempts to pleasantly coerce us back. But don't mistake his kindness for something else. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Ho...
Striving to be a Samwise Gamgee in a world of Smeagols.