Get Rid of the Contraband!

Socrates said, "A life unexamined is not worth living." and his star pupil Plato reiterated the same truth.

The Bible also calls for us to take an introspective look at ourselves. We use the Word of God as a mirror to see what areas of our lives out of God's will. Paul mentions self examination in both of his letters to the Corinthian Church. Anyone that knows anything about the Church in Corinth, you will understand Paul's redundancy.

It is important to take a daily introspective look within. Many times we find ourselves in ruts that we can't seem to get out of. We find ourselves on plateaus, unable to advance any further. A lot of times we are in this state because we have yielded to our natural proclivity to tell God we know what is best for us better than he does. We do this every time God gives us clear direction on what to do, what direction to go in, what actions to take and we decide we have it figured out and we do it our way instead.

When we do that it begins to build a residue of dysfunctionality that hinders our progress. One of the areas in life where this is extremely prevalent is when God is trying to take us to new heights, but he tells that there are things and people that we can't take with us. We don't like letting go. I don't care how bad the situation is; when we decide that something belongs to us we will hold on onto it for dear life. You can have a dog that bites you every day when you come home from work and you will say that Spike had a bad day. No, spike doesn't like you! It is time to find Spike a new home.

Dr. Rick Wallace

God will tell us to leave a situation, and we will respond, "But God it feels so good." God will tell us that in order to proceed you must lighten the load and we will respond, "but God, how can something that feels so right, be wrong? So, we hold on to it or them and tuck it into the darker recesses of our heart as if God can't see it.  Ladies, if "he' doesn't value, love and honor you, the chances that he will do it next week are not too likely. Fellas, if she doesn't respect and reverence your God ordain leadership and responds to you with repetitive contempt, she is probably not the woman God has for you (make sure that you are where you should be as far as God's will before you make that assessment though).


So if you want to advance, make sure that you are not carrying any contraband. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace