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Avoid Learning in a Hard Way

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MEDITATION

Avoid learning in a hard way

1. Hope of restoration after chastisement
a. God promised to deliver them from captivity v53.
b. God promised to remember His everlasting covenant with them v60,62.
c. God promised to restore them to their former glorious status (former estate) v55.
2. Wasted years and opportunities
Before this could be possible, some avoidable events happened.
a. Captivity in Babylon for 70 years (over 2 generations wasted).
b. Public and prolonged humiliation, shame and slavery in a foreign land due to their stubborn addition to self will v54,57,58,61,63.
c. Many of their children's lives and destinies were wasted through deaths, famine and sword. 
d. Destruction of their lifelong investments and possessions as Nebuchadnezzar invaded their land.
e. They learnt their lessons in a hard and costly way before they could abandon their self life and yield themselves to God.
3. How to avoid learning in a hard way
a. Don't experiment with disobedience to the word of God. The result is always bitter. Ask the children of Israel.
b. The will of God is always the best. Don't condone self will. Take your to the cross when you are finding it difficult.
c. Don't delay acting on any warning you receive from the Lord and His messengers. When you are ready for God, He may not be ready for you.
d. Let the  wordings of the Hymn below guide your prayers.



Exercise 
Give the name of the successful and godly patriarch in the Bible who learnt his lesson in a hard way, wasted his years and confessed that "few and evil" are his days in life "and have not attained to the days of his father". 
Lord, I bring my heart to you. Let the cross crucify to death all forms of self will in me🙏
Lord, deal and destroy all natural tendencies in me that experiment, consciously or unconsciously, with self will and disobedience🙏
God of mercy, don't leave me to waste my time and destiny at any time🙏
Lord, cause the word of God we are hearing and reading to effectively crush all self will in the life of all of us🙏

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