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QUESTION 72:
I am a Christian, but I
am disobeying the Lord and
not happy. Can you help me?
ANSWER: I am not
surprised that you are
not happy, you shouldn’t be. Disobedience always brings
unhappiness and as you go on it could become much
worse. Obedience is the way to being happy in the Lord. Isa
1:19,20 puts it well; "If ye be willing and obedient,
ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye
shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it."
There is a principle all through the
Bible that God stated to king
Saul, 1 Samuel 15:22 "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of
the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
the fat of rams."
Your course of disobedience is a
hard one. You are not happy away
from the Lord and the way is hard. Proverbs 13:15
"Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
is hard" You have two choices; one is to go on in
your unhappy disobedience, which dishonours the Name of our
Saviour, and eventually bring chastening by the Lord,
or repent of your acts of disobedience and get right with the
Lord. The Lord does not bless disobedience, but is ever
ready to forgive and restore His people. He
requires real repentance on your part. Prov.
28:13, "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." Again, Prov.
28:14 "Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth
his heart shall fall into mischief." To “fear the Lord means
you respect and obey Him. God protect those that do.
Psm 34: 7 "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that
fear him, and delivereth them." Acts of disobedience
removes the angel and exposes you to Satan and all his
cohorts.
Dear reader, are you also a
professing Christians and living is
disobedience, which is sin? You too, are most
unhappy, not enjoying the world or the Lord.
This verse was spoken to God’s people,
Isa. 55:7 “Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon.”
All comments and questions to:Harold Smith
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Updated January 2008, by Shelly Allen