Psa 19:11 There's more: God's Word warns us of danger and directs us to hidden treasure. 12 Otherwise how will we find our way? Or know when we play the fool?
These days most modern cars are equipped with warning signals of all sorts. Lights go on when the oil pressure is low, we have indicators warning us that we are about to run out of fuel, irritating bells that warns us about our safety belts that are not engaged etc.
Aircraft have one important warning signal, especially light aircraft that are not equipped with all the features of the big carriers. It’s the warning signal and bell that warns the pilot to lower the undercarriage at about 200 feet above ground, to ensure that you have wheels to land on.
I used to skydive at Carletonville Skydiving club many years ago and on this particular day, the pilot decided to disconnect the under carriage warning signal. It `irritated` him, with the constant take off and landings that take place at a skydiving club.
Needless to say: eventually it happened, on final approach he forgot about the wheels and the aircraft came crashing and skidding down the runway, no wheels to land on. Fortunately the pilot was alone in the aircraft and suffered only a couple of bruises but the aircraft was destroyed.
How often in life do we get God’s warning signals? That inner voice that warns us not to take a certain direction in life or we open the Bible and a verse speaks to us, concerning something we should or should not do. Yet we so often choose to ignore it.
Then, when we come crashing down, we cry out “why me, why did this happen to me?” You all know the story; we’ve all been there.
And then, if we admit, we realise that God has been there, warning us, giving us His direction. But, we chose to ignore, we chose to disconnect the warning bells and lights.
But listen to this:
Psa 19:13 Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh! Keep me from stupid
sins, from thinking I can take over your work; Then I can start this day sun-washed,
scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.
When we have messed up, we have a God with an ear that is not deaf, a God with a heart of compassion, a God full of Grace and Mercy, who will hear our cries, who will clean the slate and allow us to start over.
Isa 1:18 "Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." This is GOD's Message: "If your sins are blood-red, they'll be snow-white. If they're red like crimson, they'll be like wool. 19 If you'll willingly obey, you'll feast like kings.
God invites us to approach Him with our messed up lives and He gives the ultimate promise. Once repented, once forgiven, remembered no more. A New start and a new day.
What a hope and an expected glory that is.
We have a merciful Father, who looks upon us with nothing but love in His eyes.
Psa 139:15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know
exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of
my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even
lived one day. Your thoughts--how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! 18 I couldn't even begin to count them-- any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
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