How Did I Get Myself In This Predicament?

People often ask themselves, “how did I get myself in this predicament?” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. You’ll even find Christians in this category. They will say, “I don’t feel close to God”. When we stop praying, reading God’s word daily, thinking about Him moment by moment, how can we expect to be following Him? How can we expect to be blessed? How can we expect to have confidence in our future? Or even have Hope? We get ourselves in situations that are uncomfortable by our own doing. When we refuse to listen to God, we plant trees that produce inedible fruit. We plant schemes that not only bring harm to ourselves, but promote others to do the same. If a farmer plants corn in his field and expects wheat to grow there instead, he’s only fooling himself. We reap what we sow. Without God, we will reap the fruit of our own schemes. Personal responsibility plays a major role in life here on earth, even if we refuse to acknowledge it. Why not be the farmer who plants corn and expects corn to grow? It’s exactly what happens when we follow God, we may not know the details of His ways, but we certainly know the outcome. His glory and our blessings are the fruit of planting God’s word in our hearts.

19 Listen, all the earth! I will bring disaster on My people.It is the fruit of their own schemes, because they refuse to listen to Me. They have rejected My word. Jeremiah 6:19