WILLINGNESS

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Text :  Isaiah 1:19.

If you’re willing and obedient, you’ll eat the best that the land produces. 

Willingness is the strength of obedience, if you are willing, obedience will come to you naturally.

One thing God has blessed humanity with is the will-power. This can however be either a blessing or a curse. 

Your will-power is your power of choice. God didn't create man like robots, He created us and gave us the freedom of choice. But his desire is that we'll willfully choose him.

Like Joshua,  I  want to re-echo it in your ears that you should use your will-power to choose the Lord and His way.

 _And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD._ Joshua 24:15.

Undoubtedly, the choice is yours. But *once your choice is made, you have inevitably chosen the outcome of your choices.* 

So, the reason people disobey is not because obedience is hard but because they are not willing to. That's why people say when there's a 'will', there's a way. 

 *Once you are not willing to do something, you make excuses for it.* There is no excuse anywhere, they are made by unwilling folks to escape taking responsibility. 

Your unwillingness towards God's words will ultimately lead you to disobedience. No one, (not even God) can force you to do what you are not willing to do. There's a common saying that you can force a horse to the river but you cannot force it to drink water. This is so true about humans too. There's a limit to how you can push people to do what they are not willing to do.

If you desire to please God , check your choices. You can intentionally chose to follow God and His instructions from now on, and His Grace will be poured on you to help you.

Bible Reading: Isaiah 1:16-20.

PRAYER FOCUS
1.) Father God, I receive grace to follow your instructions from now on that I may eat the good of the land.

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