“Whoever does not love me does not keep my words”
“But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.”
John 3:9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver?
Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
Isaiah 65:2 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
Acts 28:27 “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.” For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
Scripture from God states many hearts are dull and eyes and ears shut to the word of God. They can not perceive Him, or see His hand at work, or hear His whispers of guidance and leading. I do not know what is worse; to have rejected Him and live apart from Him, or to have tasted the love of God and live a life apart from Him. One says I don’t want to know You. The other says I want to know You but only for the benefit of myself and stay at arms length but be ready when I need you. We must choose to humbly serve, honor, follow and obey. This choice is between do we serve self or do we serve God. If the choice is to serve God we have to ask what does a life look like that is being lived out with this choice. Does it keep God at arms length or does it reach out seeking, pleading, wanting, willing, needing to have communion and leading with and from God each day? If we want to stay close to God we must have hearts that are open willing, ears that are open and seeking whispers of God, and eyes that are open and wanting to see the hand of God working. Stay in His word each day, live to honor and glorify Him, follow, serve, obey.