Life

I am always amazed at what I will do knowing full well the consequences. I will let my gas tank get so low that every time I turn the car on I feel like it is an answer to prayer. I will leave the house without a jacket knowing later I will be cold. I will stay up late reading a good book knowing 5:45 a.m. is going to feel more like 3 a.m. Yet I do it anyway. I suppose on the same vein it should not surprise me when people around me do things, relational things, that they already know will hurt them later.
Almost more intriguing is the process we use to justify the action that results in pain. If I wait the cost of gas will go down. Oh, it will get warmer as the sun comes up, I can sleep tomorrow afternoon. He is really good to me, he will change, but he is so responsible, he has a good job, or he is a REALLY nice guy. All great things but what is saving 5 cents per gallon of gas going to do when I am stranded on the highway? Or how is that sweatshirt going to help when the sun raised the temp to a whamping 42 degrees? It is always safer to go with what you know. There are facts and examples to learn from. Why do we avoid protection? Why do we repel against what we know to be right at true?

Gods ways are perfect and in place to make our life better. It will not be perfect or trouble free but this is what His word tells us: Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. Proverbs 17:1