DISOBEYING GOD CAN COST YOUR LIFE, NATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY!

Have you ever sit down and counted up the cost of living a holy life? Have you counted up the cost of living a disobedient life? Have you counted up the cost of living life? Each situation will cost you, but at what price? Adam and Eve, Jonah and the young prophet sent to Bethal by God are examples of disobedience.

The experiences  we go through when we disobey God, are all part of the cost of disobedience. As servants of our Lord Jesus Christ we are all to be obedient to His Word. When we disobey, there is a cost involved. Yes, God will always reach down in love and completely forgive us and bring us back into His fellowship, but consequences always follow sin. Part of the cost of disobedience is separation. Disobedience results in broken fellowship with the Lord! Other lives are  endangered. Disobedience brings a wide variety of horrible consequences such as spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental consequences. 

Disobedience can inflict so much emotional pains on us to the extent that we become a slave to bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, and so forth. And mental consequences have to do with the fact that sin burdens the conscience of men, it corrupts and cripples people’s judgment, it has a strong hold on the memory, and fetter the free will. Consequently, there’s no genuine peace for those who are living in sin no matter what they may say.

The good news is that God certainly admires when a sinner is honest with himself by willing to acknowledge his sinfulness by confessing his sins to Him. Nothing pleases and glorifies God more than when a sinner comes to Him with a broken and contrite heart concerning his sinfulness. If you have disobeyed the Lord in some area of your life, repent and confess this sin now. Our heavenly Father will always forgive and restore us completely as He did with Jonah.