WHY OBEY GOD?

Learning to trust and obey God is a journey. Sometimes it takes us to keep making the same mistakes over, and over again until we finally realize the way we keep trying to go is not the way God wants us to go. People can tell us for years but it's only until we get tired of 'falling in the hole in the sidewalk' that we can do what God has always been telling us to do. He's not going to make us. He will just continue to let our plans keep failing. This can be a long, painful and hard lesson until we get it.  God explained this to me back in the early 2000's when I wrote and self published this book. Dive in to find out why we obey God.

“I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes me a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.”
― Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: