Stop It!

“Stop it!” That’s a phrase that we usually reserve for someone who is bothering us. What about the things we do that bother God though? Our lives are full of habits and action that display weak faith and a tendency to stray away from God. His desire is for us to experience an abundant life that’s full of blessing and promise but we often sacrifice that life at the altar of habits and actions mentioned above.

Perhaps this is the type of living that Paul was referring to when he said in Romans 1:25 that they, “exchanged the truth of God for a lie.” Imagine how aggravated God gets when we mess up. Not aggravated at us in particular (although our sin does greatly displease him) but aggravated at the missed blessing and promise because we exchanged the truth of God’s desires towards us for something else that doesn’t measure up to His plan.

Why? Why are we, “prone to wonder” like the old hymn says? The truth is, we are human and as long as we are such we’ll be likely to sell Him out. The key to walking as a Christian is identifying these potential spiritual pitfalls and stopping the behaviors before they have the opportunity to pop up in our lives. To do this, we must be completely in tune to the Holy Spirit to that, through, Him we can hear the voice of God leading us to the promised abundance. It’s at that moment that, when we face our weaknesses and temptations, we’ll hear the voice of God screaming to us to, stop it!