When the cost of disobedience is a precious life
When the cost of disobedience is a precious life
It saddens my heart to read about the 16 year-old boy who took his brother's car out for a drive and never made it back alive. Obviously, he did not have a driver's licence. Well, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that with a drivers' licence, accidents can be prevented.
What brought to reminder was his "disobedience" that cost him his very life - disobedient to the state laws about driving without a licence ... disobedient to the fact that he was under-age and he should have waited until he turned 18 to obtain an official licence under formal driving lessons ... disobedient (perhaps) to his family's concern (I supposed so though it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the papers about his relationship with his folks).
Don't we find a parallel of his disobedience within each one of us too? Very often, we just want our ways and we want it NOW. We pray and pray, we ask and ask, we seek and seek - and when we do not get answers or when God is silent, we dig our own way out - usually in disobedience. Most of the times, we get hard knocks, bad bruises, shattered spirit as a result of our disobedience.
James 4:2-3 "You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
Disobedience and rebellion - it has been humanity's problem since the beginning of time, and it still is. Sometimes I wonder how much we need to go through, and how long does it take before we can finally remember (humanity are such forgetful creatures!!) - submit in obedience to God and His will for us for He is a God who has good plans for our lives (Jer 29:11).
It saddens my heart to read about the 16 year-old boy who took his brother's car out for a drive and never made it back alive. Obviously, he did not have a driver's licence. Well, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that with a drivers' licence, accidents can be prevented.
What brought to reminder was his "disobedience" that cost him his very life - disobedient to the state laws about driving without a licence ... disobedient to the fact that he was under-age and he should have waited until he turned 18 to obtain an official licence under formal driving lessons ... disobedient (perhaps) to his family's concern (I supposed so though it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the papers about his relationship with his folks).
Don't we find a parallel of his disobedience within each one of us too? Very often, we just want our ways and we want it NOW. We pray and pray, we ask and ask, we seek and seek - and when we do not get answers or when God is silent, we dig our own way out - usually in disobedience. Most of the times, we get hard knocks, bad bruises, shattered spirit as a result of our disobedience.
James 4:2-3 "You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
Disobedience and rebellion - it has been humanity's problem since the beginning of time, and it still is. Sometimes I wonder how much we need to go through, and how long does it take before we can finally remember (humanity are such forgetful creatures!!) - submit in obedience to God and His will for us for He is a God who has good plans for our lives (Jer 29:11).
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