The Hard Way

Good Morning My Beloved Ones,

      I pray you are quick to yield your will and your ways to that of the Father, for Father knows best.

     Today I want to talk to you about “The Hard Way”.  If you’ve ever watched a crime drama on TV, I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way, it’s up to you.”  The detective/prosecutor/policeman was saying, “We know you’re guilty, you are going to jail.  You can cooperate and confess and this will go quickly or you can resist and deny and make things more difficult for yourself.”

     I can’t tell you how many times in my life I’ve heard people say to me, “Why didn’t you just…?”  It seems that for everything I attempt to do there is an easier, quicker, more efficient way to do it that never occurred to me until someone said, “Why didn’t you just….?”  I always seem to do things the hard way.  It just comes naturally to me.  And not to me only – this problem started in the Garden of Eden.

     Adam and Eve had it easy in the garden.  It was paradise.  They had every kind of desirable food at their fingertips for the picking.  But when they defied God, what was their punishment?  God told Adam in Genesis 3:19 that he would now have to labor and sweat to get his food.  He’d have to do it the hard way.

     God has an easy, efficient, perfect way for us to live our lives, beloved ones.  But most of us choose to do things our way – the hard way.  I have tried to do things in my own strength and have failed.  I then cried out to God for help and have heard Him say, “Why didn’t you just open the Book?  Why didn’t you just call upon Me?”

     Oh God, let us not be too stubborn or prideful to yield to your ways.  Let us avail ourselves of the provision you’ve made for us.  Let us all come to realize that it’s your way or the hard way.

 

Learning to just…. Yield.  Your sister in Christ, Raelynn