Take warning, as you pray aloud the words of this Lazaroo:

“Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you…”
(Judges 2:2-3)

That’s the price for my disobedience, isn’t it, Jesus?

Life becomes harder.

Clean fields become full of weeds.
Previously dependable cars break down.
Good health disintegrates into sickness.

Since I refuse to follow You

You stop clearing the path before me.

That’s not to say that faithfully obeying You means I will never experience my share of problems.

I seem to remember that You were:

“despised and rejected”
“a man of sorrows”
“familiar with suffering”

even though You were perfect, without sin.

Beyond that –

loyalty to You means I make a dedicated enemy of Satan.
He will attack and attack and attack me for the rest of my life.

But when it comes to choosing sworn enemies…

rather than You

I choose Him.

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Proverbs 12:26; Proverbs 13:15; Isaiah 53:3-55; Matthew 6:17-29; Matthew 10:24-25; Luke 4:12-13; Hebrews 4:14-15; 1 Peter 5:8-9

What is Lazaroo?

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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.