To Our Own Harm

Jeremiah 25: 7

... That you provoke Me with the works of your hands to your own harm ...

God loves us and He told us the way to live our lives that would be in harmony with how He designed this world, so we could have prosperous lives and good relationships. 

Whenever we ignore what we know to be God's ways for us to follow His rules to love Him and one another, we'll end up doing or saying something or even adopting a whole lifestyle that is against what God wants for us, and it's always to our own harm. And it even harms other people, too. 

Each one of us lives in a web of influence that continually reaches out to include more and more people, so there is no way to see how far our poor choices will affect others to make poor choices and ruin their lives, too. 

So now our World is all messed up, teaching lies as truth, calling good bad, and trading sour for sweet. Turning everything around, until the whole World is dizzy and ready to fall down. 

God still calls to those He has chosen, though, and more and more people are turning away from the World and its ways to embrace the One Who made them, loves them, and sent His Son to be their Sacrifice to pay the debt they owe for sin. 

So the good is getting better, the bad is getting worse, and there is less and less middle ground between. 

If you feel the tug of God's Spirit calling you, don't ignore it. Don't try to drown it out. He won't shame you. He will embrace you in His arms of Love, cleanse you, and forgive you. He will make you His own child, and one Day crown you as co-regent with King Jesus to rule in the Kingdom of God.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!