Thread by @yinkanubi

What to expect on life’s journey (3)

‘You ran well. Who hindered you?’
Galatians 5:7 NKJV

1. You must take responsibility for your life instead of blaming others. In the Garden of Eden when God asked Adam why he had eaten from the 🌲, he blamed his wife: ‘The woman whom You gave…me…gave me of the 🌲 & I ate’ (Gen 3:12). Then we read, ‘The Lord God said to the woman,

2..“What is this you've done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me”’. Eve blamed the devil. So did God accept their excuses? No. He said to Adam: ‘Because you've heeded the voice of your wife, and…eaten from the 🌲 of which I commanded you, saying, “You shall not eat of it”

3. Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you’ (vv. 17-18). Then God told Eve, ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children;

4..your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you’ (v.16). When those words were spoken, Adam & Eve were banished from Paradise. ‘Since God is all-knowing,’ you ask, ‘how come He got angry with Adam & Eve?’ Bcos they won't take responsibility for their actions!

5. When you sin, God will readily forgive you (see Neh 9:17). What He won’t accept, however, is obfuscating, rationalising, justifying, excusing & blaming. His Word says, ‘He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses & forsakes them will have mercy’ (Prov 28:13)

6. So if you want to move forward, you must take responsibility for your life!

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This is your morning dew. When others are saying there is a casting down, you will say for you, your family, and your business, there is a lifting up. You will succeed IJN 🙏