Back Into Egypt? BY: KB © 1.10.15

I'm going to share a bit about something that recently became apparent to me. I know it's one of my major character defects and I'm sure it's something that I have in common with many of you. I know I have a tendency to ignore it until I'm in the middle of the discomfort of MY choices. Yes...I said it!!! BOOM!!!! DEAL WITH IT!!!! The discomfort of MY CHOICES!!!!

We, myself included, have a tendency to never fully acknowledge the consequences of OUR behaviors. We are content at looking at the things that fell into place to complicate the matters. We're comfortable blaming the people, places and things used to change our focus and behaviors. We offer up prayers for changes in universal laws, meaning we want God to change the outcomes but we neglect to look at the behaviors that caused the situation.

I was recently "delivered" from something and once set free I really enjoyed the freedom that the situation offered and just as I was beginning to relax in my new found freedom thing began to happen....I found myself lost in unfamiliarity. I didn't know what to do because the excuses were gone.  I was just like the Israelite in Exodus 16: 2-3   …2 The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The sons of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the LORD'S hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." 

I found myself mentally and emotionally headed back into "Egypt" because I was unfamiliar with freedom.  The more I thought about it I realized that I was in the middle of a subconscious faith crisis! I realized that while I was trusting God for some things I was not willing to allow Him access to ALL things. I was willing to go into slavery and be fed any ol' thing rather than trust God to provide. God took me to the wilderness to teach me. He was providing manna and I was rejecting it.

Here's what I learned in the experience:

1 Corinthians 6: 12-13    12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.…

I also that God takes you to the wildness and feeds you just enough to get through your day....you're hungry but the hunger should be for Him. He provides enough in a day to sustain.....

I GET IT!!!!!

Are you romanticizing your own demise?  Are you headed back to slavery? What are you trading yourself into ?

How ya livin"?!