Follow the Directions

How many times in your young years did you hear your mother, father or teacher say, "If you'd only of FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS, you wouldn't have gotten into trouble, or you wouldn't have failed the test, or you wouldn't have had to learn that lesson the hard way."

I can tell you....I heard this said at least a million times! Following directions is much harder for some of us than others but is undoubtably hard for ALL of us. Why is that do you think???? I'm gonna guess that our own ridiculous selfishness almost always keeps us from following directions. We almost always want to do what WE WANT TO DO....regardless of the directions that we "should be" following.

Or, do you remember ever being given something to fill out but instead of reading the directions on "how" to fill it out....we just proceeded to do it the way we "thought" it should be done OR how we "wanted" for it to be done only to find out after we are halfway through that we had been doing it wrong????? Hmmmmmmmmm.....

Why is it we continually choose to not FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS that God has given us in the 10 Commandments for a starter??? When will we learn? I have to wonder how much we will loose in our lifetimes because we chose to do things our own way instead of following the directions God has layed before us.

Maybe we all need to re-read the 10 Commandments right now and refresh our memories. WE have been told to FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS that God gave us. Today is a good day to start, tomorrow could be too late.