“Today, if you will hear His voice: “Do not harden your hearts.” Ps95.8 NKJV
The real danger whenever we say “no” to the leading of the Holy Spirit, may not be in that single act of disobedience-eating one more piece of pie when He is encouraging self-control. The real danger is that every time we say “no” to Him we are reinforcing in ourselves the habit of saying “no,” again and again. Every “No,“ makes it easier to say “No,“ the next time. And, in the case of that extra piece of pie we all know where that leads. But I wonder if we truly visualize our disobedience in the ultimate sense. Eventually, our habit of saying "No,“ becomes the character of saying "No.” This is why Scripture tells us that people who as a lifestyle are always refusing God, cannot live in that place where God’s will is perfectly accomplished. Christ of course is both willing and able to make up what is lacking in each of our failings and promises to do so for all who look to Him. But we should understand that with His gift of forgiveness is His gift of the Holy Spirit and He has every intention of training our hearts in obedience. This means of course that we learn to say “No,“ to ever saying “No,“ to Him. 8/31/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
