“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Isaiah 1:19-20 (NKJV)

AUGUST 5 - Two months had miserably passed since the shock of his death. Awakened by the gunshots, five quick blasts, upon opening her back door, there he was, her husband of twenty years, lying on the cold
driveway, a mess of blood and flesh emulating from what had been his head. “I want to get out but I can’t,” she had heard him whisper into the telephone a few days before his death. Somehow, some way, he got
in with the wrong crowd. Now, although the holes from the bullets that hit the garage were being filled in and repaired, the consequences of his actions would remain.

Radically condemning the Jewish “establishment” of that day, John the Baptist called Israel into a “new beginning,” a baptism of repentance from years of stubborn sin. And although scores were baptized,
cleansing their lives of wrongdoing, the consequences remained. It is essential to realize that living the life God intended begins by recognizing there are consequences for our actions, just as there were consequences for the man who got involved with the wrong crowd. Of course, we live in a society today where consequences for a lack of self-control are few and far between.

But we need to realize that even though society hands out very few consequences for wrong behavior, there are great consequences in the Kingdom of God, and those consequences don’t go away with the wind.

Father, I thank You that I am willing and obedient and I eat the best of the land.

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Galatians 4

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