Tag: consequences
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 Focus: 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 It is hard to deny that life is full of cause-and-effect. You act one way, the cause, and things will turn out another, the effect. If you touch a hot stove, expect to be burnt. If you speed through a red light, expect a fine in the mail (I should know)! If you don’t discipline kids, expect disobedience. If you eat a lot of junk food, expect to put on weight if you don’t exercise. It is the natural order of things, if you do certain things, expect certain…
Cover to Cover Reading: Judges 1:1-3:31 Focus: Judges 2:1-19; 3:7-8, 12-14 Have you got a friend who is constantly repeating the same mistake over and over again? Every time it happens you hear the words, “I won’t do it again…” but it is only a short amount of time before it happens again. They suffer the same consequences and struggles each time, but they just don’t learn their lesson. You urge them, time and time over again, to look after themselves, to be careful that they don’t make the same mistake again…but they just don’t get it.
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 22:1-24:33 Focus: Joshua 24:14-27 As part of life, there are choices which need to be made. Some of no consequence, some with short-term consequence, some with continual life-changing consequences. These life choices should never be made without serious consideration as it is often hard to go back on them. Buying a house and locking yourself into a mortgage… proposing to the girl of your dreams (though people are failing to see the long-term consequences of this one)… migrating to another country… which God you will serve…
