YOU ARE THE ONE THAT WILL GET HURT.

 Some days ago, I happened to experience a thing that seemed common to most of us. 

What was it? 

I had a meeting, and I needed to pick out the cloth I desired to wear for the meeting. 

I started searching for this specific cloth, and the pain of getting any of my clothes is that I have to climb a stool & stretch myself to search my box to pick any desired cloth. 

So I did the usual this particular day, searching & searching as I kept stretching, yet I couldn't find the particular cloth; instead, I was finding other good-looking clothes, but definitely not what I was desiring to wear. 

Yeah, I even discovered a cloth I didn't remember I had through the search, but the captivating part of the whole happening was that, midway (let me say it was way before midway) of my search, I heard within my spirit to search my other box of clothes, but I tried reasoning things out with 'the voice behind my ears', pointing out that that cloth shouldn't be there since clothes in the other box are frequently worn, and with which this particular one wasn't. 

Guess what? I nudged off the voice & kept stretching & searching rigorously in the first box because I wanted to make it to the planned meeting too in time, and of course, the cloth wasn't there. 

When I was tired of stretching, I finally adjusted to check the other box, and true to it, the cloth was there! 

Infact, it was at the top layer of the clothes in the box (such that I wouldn't need to stretch nor stress to pick it). 

So I learned my lessons that instant.

Lessons learned:

• Most times we search for answers, things, and in all this, GOD prompts, nudges, instructs, guides, and directs us on where to look or what to do; we sometimes hear it coming indirectly from someone, or we hear it directly as "the voice behind you" (Isa. 30:21). 

But the question is, do we ever/always obey?

How often have you obeyed those impulse prompts, short directions, and lengthy instructions? 

• Now, another point, which was my main lesson from the whole experience, is that, when we refuse to obey those prompts, guidance, and instructions from GOD, we end up being the one getting hurt. Whether it's a strain we get or a burn or something even worse. Why? 

Just because we refuse to obey! 

Yes, while refusing or denying the voice and not obeying promptly, we might get other options along the line that seem good, but are they really what is befitting for us—what GOD has in HIS perfect plan for us concerning that thing?

Think about it, dear. 

∆ Disobedience, whether full or partial, only opens you up to hurt and nothing better.

∆ Disobedience only takes away from you the joy associated with doing the right thing.

∆ Disobedience makes you displease GOD & miss what HE is doing with you at that specific time.

∆ Disobedience can make you miss the real thing & give you something less befitting.

Remember, You are the one that will get hurt if you don't obey that INNER VOICE OF GOD.

Stay Blessed Beloved.