08/06/2023
It pays to serve Jesus and to stay within the length of the rope of His will.
As I watch a goat in its rope stretching to get a grass that is beyond the reach of it's rope I began wondering what good is in that grass to warrant such struggles?
I thought within me that the owner must have certainly tied the goat in a very good location that has enough grass to satisfy the goat yet the goat is straining for a grass beyond the rope. This gives me a picture of what lust has done to many of us.
Lust leaves you with a yearning for what is not given you by God yet that thing appears as the best for you from afar.
It looks like when you have it you will be completely satisfied but that is the big lie.
How many a times you have longed for the rubbish Satan advertised as delicacies and even went out of your way outside the boundary line set for you by the Lord and trespass just to get it. And when you have taken a bite you could not but asked yourself, 'what is this rubbish?' That is when you will have other sinners telling you 'come on, it's sweet and you will enjoy it with more bites...'
Any through child of God who has eaten and dine with the Saviour inside him can tell how messy sin taste. He must have to keep eating that mess and adjust to it before agreeing with the big lie that sin is sweet.
There is nothing out there in sin. It doesn't satisfy only Jesus can.
Sin makes you a slave but Jesus sets you free.
Sin makes you guilty but Jesus makes you whole.
I have tested both and I tell you the truth, though it appears I am within the fence of God, I am satisfied because God's provisions are the best.
It pays to serve Jesus and stay within the length of the rope of His will.