Excuses, Excuses

Excuses Excuse. We all have them don’t we? May be your excuse for not gathering with people to worship is that someone was mean to you. Maybe you don’t like the music. Maybe you don’t like the preacher. Maybe you don’t like the fact that they have chairs and not pews or pews and not chairs. The list could go on and on. I could list hundreds of reasons I don’t want to go places. God began a work on me a long time ago to show me that my way is not His way. That just because I don’t like things doesn’t mean that I get to be disobedient. Let me put it this way. When I was younger and just a teenage boy, my parents set a curfew. Remember what that was. Now I didn’t like the fact that my sister who was the same age as me could stay out an hour longer than I could. So I decided that I would just stay out like she did. Well there we consequences to that decision. You guessed it. I got punished. You see God has instructed us to gather with His family in corporate worship. When we chose not to, don’t expect your father in Heaven to act like everything is Okie dokie. God will take you behind the woodshed and tear up your spiritual backside. So remember that next time you think about an excuse to give about being disobedient.