01/07/2021
AFTER MANY YEARS AS A BELIEVER CAN I STILL DECEIVE MYSELF?
TRUANT: The idefinition of a truant is a pupil who stays away from school without leave or explanation, an absentee or non-attender.
The non-attender or non-attendee caught my attention
Proverbs 4:20-21 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
As I was seeking the Lord this morning my mind began to wonder, it often does and I have to bring my thoughts back to meditating on His Majesty. But this morning I wasn't so quick and my thoughts went all the way back to my school days to a time when I thought I didn't need school so I just didn't go. As we used to say in the old days, I Played Truant. ( definition above )
Not only was I in denial that I needed discipline, education and instruction for life, I was actually in total rebellion against my dad who I loved, and who I knew loved me.
My grandmother said to me " I saw your father crying the other day, he was so worried about you, about you not going to school" she shouted " you need school to prepare yourself for life," and she finished the conversation by adding " your hurting your father STOP IT !!!!!!."
I never played truant again, the love of my earthly dad and the fact that I hurt him was enough to turn me around.
Romans 2:4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you towards repentance?
Do we deceive ourselves when we neglect the gathering of the saints, bible study, worship, prayer, without actually saying it, but by our action or non-action saying to our creator God "I'm too busy, I have more important things to do, I don't need to spend time and learn of You". And then by acting in this way do we hurt our heavenly Fathers heart in the same way I hurt my earthly farther.
