Don’t Touch That!

Lloyd John Ogilvie in his book God’s Best for My Life wrote, “The future is a friend. The Lord can help me overcome the past and not repeat its mistakes.”

A child can be obstinate. She wants to touch the pan on the stove, but you tell her not to because it’s hot and it will hurt her hands. As soon as you turn away, she walks back to the stove and reaches for the pan again. Your voice becomes higher as you attempt to get your point across, hoping she will understand it’s for her own safety that your voice is raised in warning.

Even as adults, we’re not that different from children. We make the same mistakes over and again, and we sin today exactly the way we swore we wouldn’t sin yesterday. Because God knows what’s best for us, he sometimes has to “raise” his voice. He has to do something forceful to get our attention. Our futures are at stake, and God wants us to overcome our failures so that we may wholeheartedly embrace our promising futures.

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