So What do We Deserve - Really?

I distinctly remember it...the day that God truly got my attention regarding choices; His and mine.

On my way back to work, I had just enough time to hit a drive-thru and get some frozen yogurt. I remember thinking "I deserve this, it's been a long day, I'm tired, it's hot, I deserve this!" (sound familiar??) The next thought that came through my mind was very definitely not me. That thought said " Really? you deserve this? You deserve to eat this, feel bloated, fuzzy brained, and drained...you deserve this?" I suddenly felt very sheepish, and regretful of making such rotten choices for myself. I realized a lot of things that day. How the choices I was making were sometimes wrapped up in the guise of "deserving" or celebrating.

Jesus made the choice to die for me; to cover my sin with His precious blood, but Jesus did not die for my freedom to destroy my body on a daily basis. I felt as if I had wasted gallons of that precious blood! I was not condemned as if the enemy had taken over my thoughts. Just convicted of how very much God and His Son loved me. Enough to die for me, enough to tell me now that it was time to make better choices and have an extraordinary existence here on earth.

I was so very thankful for this new outlook! With this new perspective, I have been set free from feeling guilty of NOT embibing in things I know "I shouldn't" I had been set free to not adhere to the pressure of those around me, as they chose their path. I was living in the knowledge of what God has called me specifically to do, to be, and how to live my life the way He intended!

There is a really tough scripture in Proverbs 23. It reads:

Proverbs 23:1-3 " When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food." NKJV

I know this is for me, and what God has called me to. I know that if I stick to His Word, His ways, and follow His Son, I will live a life of freedom and abundance!

How about you? How is God calling you to live? Do you have any habits you need to lay down? Any issues that need facing? Any bondage that needs breaking??? He can do it - just ask Him!

Join me as I pray: Dear Lord, Thank you for supplying ALL my needs. Thank you for satisfying all that is in me. There is nothing too difficult for You, Lord. Neither is there anything that we cannot ask. Please help me to be satisfied where I am on the way to where You are taking me. Lord, let me hear Your voice louder than any other, that I will make the choice that puts me that much closer to You and all You would have me do here on this earth as I journey toward You. If there are things that need to be gone from my life, please reveal them. Wrong habits, harmful thoughts and emotions. I turn them all over to you now Father, God. Thank You for setting me free!