The Weight of Other Peoples Choices

If you never read anything else we discuss, do not miss this one.  God said it is not a lie........literally! Read on:

We all go through the times when we do not understand the reason we are going through difficulties due to someone elses stuborness or rebellion.  We ask ourselves questions like:  Does God really expect me to help this person when they are simply receiving what they created?  Is it selfish of me to not help where I can so that this individual may see that there is a God that loves him / her when they are bottoming out?  Is it disrespectful to God if I do not "put on joy" as I am having to deal with people that always put their wants before the burdens they are allowing to crash in on my life with disregard to the weight is has on me?

So what do we do with that.  Well I pray that during our next conversations God will really speak up, because this is the road we are headed down as we discuss Love honestly.

In the book of Habakkuk we studied where this man of God was deliberating “How long, Oh Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not save.” He goes on to ask about all the imbalance, injustice and oppression taking place and questions why God is just watching it all happen. God did respond to Habakkuk, but Habakkuk waited for the answer trusting that He would. God said listen Habakkuk to my reply and write it down REALLY big so everyone knows the answer, and tell them it isn't a lie - it is GOING to happen, AND it is going to happen at the appropriate time - not early and not late. He then describes the person it is going to happen to. He says "look at the proud person he is not right in himself. He then describes the one he sees suffering by their actions and describes what He sees. "But the righteous person will live because of his faithfulness"

Now he really explains things to Hab as he expounds stating He sees it all. He sees their arrogance, how they have the power to make decisions that are fair and yet they keep on as if God isn't watching.  He also states that it is going to get worse because He knows their calous, selfish, manipulative and uncaring ways.  Do you know why God wanted Hab to write it down LARGE for everyone to see?  So that they would read it and RUN.

Habakkuk 2:3"Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record  the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. "For the vision is yet for the appointed  time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay. "



We know that when others disregard proper boundaries they are supposed to be isolated so that damage is contained and will only crashing in on themselves.  It is obvious that if you stay in their midst when these metephorical walls become real weights and bondage that anyone in their path is going to be injured.  Do you feel that it is God's will for you to walk in and be crushed? 

When you think about it isn't it ludicrous to rush in to rescue them?  People are SUSPOSED to feel the gravity of their decisions; that is what SIN is designed to do.  If it hurts maybe they will stop inflicting pain on themselves!!!  So stop rescuing them, or they will never learn and God's justice will never be seen by others in the mighty way He has planned.

Sometime you are supposed to "See the writting on the wall" and RUN like Forest Gump "in faithfulness"!

What writting in on your wall?
Who are you trying to "suck it up" and "save?
Maybe, just maybe you aren't supposed to.....think about it.

Write about it - I love you all,
Candace