DISOBEDIENCE to the Word of God always results in misery and bondage. God will not be trifled with.
He rightfully demands wholehearted obedience and unqualified submission to His will. Happy for us if we recognize this as our first responsibility, and so yield ourselves to Him as those bought with a price, who are His, both by creation and redemption. Failing in this, we bring sorrow upon ourselves and dishonor upon the name of the Lord. But when failure comes in, there is a way back through repentance and confession. If we thus judge ourselves, God will give deliverance in His own way and time,
“Come, let us to the Lord our God
With contrite hearts return;
Our God is gracious, nor will leave
The desolate to mourn.
His voice commands the tempest forth,
And stills the stormy wave;
And though His arm be strong to smite,
‘Tis also strong to save.”
—John Morrison.