1:50: “My message is clear. Your responsibility is to listen and obey. That’s it. Simple. Unless you choose to complicate it.

“Complication 1 – refuse to listen. Well, it is your choice. I have always been for choice. Choice is freedom. Choice is personal responsibility. Choosing to listen requires attentive ears. Requires diligence. In the moment, listening may seem harder. Until the consequences of your own wrong choices catch up with you. There is far more mess in this, far more effort to clear the path before you. And the consequences may be grave – for you, for others. For those you love.

“Complication 2 – you listen, then choose not to obey. My requests are just too much for you. I have the audacity to ask you to give up certain things. Deny yourself in favor of Me. Interfere in your life. Life which I gave you, let’s not forget. This complication is worse. You have heard Truth – and rejected it. This carries the weight of revelation. You are responsible for what you hear. Denying Truth is costly.

“Complication 3 – you ‘try’ to obey, then give up. My demands are simply too hard. They’re ‘impossible.’ You ‘can’t do it.’ This happens to be true – you can’t. You have no power or diligence on your own to walk the path I have chosen for you. You weren’t meant to follow me by your own power. I would give you all you need and more – much more. But you deny Me. You insult My Lordship and My Love for you. You accuse me of requiring much and not equipping you for the task. Clearly, there is a limit to My Power. Clearly, you know better than I. Your pride leads to blame of Me. Blame leads to resentment. Resentment leads to a hardened heart, closed ears. You’re worse off than you were before. This is a dire consequence and positions you for further disaster.

“My Love conquers all these complications – if you will only allow it. In Love I pursue, I offer forgiveness and a way back to My path. In Love I can help you clean up your mess.

“Or – you could simply listen and obey in the first place. Herein lies Joy and Freedom. It is Satan’s great lie to present ‘freedom’ as the choice to go your own way. Such ‘freedom’ is his slavery. I never enslave you. I offer Life. Always your choice. You can listen and obey My LIFE – or you can choose his slavery and death. Which seems the lighter burden?

“Complication is of your own making. Resist it. Choose ME. Simple.

“Amen.”
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Notes:

Luke 11:28: He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Proverbs 10:17: He is on the path of life who heeds instruction, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.

James 1:21-25: Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 

Matthew 7:24-27: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

Philippians 4:9:” The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”

Proverbs 16:20: Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:33: “Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.”

Galatians 5:1: For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.