Are you careless ?

       ARE YOU CARELESS ?

Good day everyone,how as our week being? I am urging us to read and also meditate on it.

Our case study will be from from the book of 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 13 𝑣𝑠 12.

 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑖.𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 " 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒" 𝑖𝑛 2 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑦 3 𝑣𝑠 1 𝑘𝑗𝑣, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑤 7 𝑣𝑠 13-14 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤, 𝑟ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 ? 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ? 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑒𝑑, 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ? 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ? 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑠𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ? 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑚 𝑖 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡? 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑 , 𝐼 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚, 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠, 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛, 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑚.

 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ, 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐻𝑖𝑚, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.

 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛; 

 1. 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡

 2. 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐸𝑦𝑒𝑠

 3. 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑠

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠, 𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠' 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒.

 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠, 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

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