31 Day Challenge - Day 21

It's difficult sometimes not to want people who do bad things to get in trouble. We see someone cheat and we want them to get caught. We see someone mistreat a person and we want to go and tell them about themselves. The culprit may not even think they've done something wrong, but what we forget is that God knows the heart and that's what He is concerned about, the heart (Proverbs 21:2).

There are moments when we're told by the Lord to give up something or to offer our best, and we give it up half heartedly or we offer someone our second best, but again God is looking at our heart, for "obedience is better than sacrafice", (I Sam 15:22), or said another way, "the Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just thn when we offer him sacrifices", (Prov. 21:3).

Life is full of lessons that must be learned and if we don't learn them the first time, we are doomed to repeat them. And yet the King of kings and The Lord of lords offers us wisdom freely so we can find life, righteousness and honor, we just need to pursue it, (21:21). When we pursue righteousness and wisdom, we find choosing the right thing to be a much easier way of living than choosing the wrong thing. It's finding peace and joy in Him and wondering why we didn't submit our life to Him sooner.