For the last couple days my girl friend has been sick, not like bad sick but just that kind that's annoying to the both of us where she just keeps coughing all day. As I normally do I was laying in bed just being with my own thoughts and God and something, i don't know what, but something took me back. I was laying in bed thinking about when I was younger. Back when I used to have a bedroom up by everyone else. When I would get sick just as my girlfriend is now, I wouldn't do anything about it. I don't know if you guys have ever had to try to sleep when someone just keeps coughing loudly, but its really difficult. My father whom has had to work hard to support our family would always get so frustrated with us. He would have to wake up early to get out the door and get a jump on the days work. While he was trying to get a good nights rest, I'd be in my room coughing up a storm. My coughing at times would be so loud and annoying that he would call out from the other room to get a drink of water or something. I would lay there and not do anything and cough myself to sleep. It's likely that I would keep my dad up past midnight with my coughing. Here is where this story grabs ahold of some relevance. While I was laying there thinking about those hard nights I had given my dad. Thinking about how I was only thinking about myself. I couldn't help but equate my coughing with my sins. My Father is sitting up in heaven, and I'm down here in this place that he has given me. Something he worked hard to make beautiful for me! And what am I doing? What am I doing to him? I'm laying in my bed just coughing away. I remember back to those nights that I would keep my dad awake, and after he would yell for me to do something about my cough from his room, I remember sitting up at night laying in bed and every time I had to cough it was a big deal. I didn't want to cough anymore, I wanted to respect my dad and let him sleep. Why is it that in so many of our lives, we have our Father screaming to us from his room up in Heaven, and we do nothing. We create a wind storm with our coughing, and throw it in his face. God is screaming down from Heaven for us to stop our wicked ways. Why can't we? Why do we continue down the same path when he places the right one in front of us? Personally in my Christian walk, I've always wanted to do good I've always wanted to move according to Gods plan. While I would make the right steps here and there I don't believe that until recently I was fully on the path God has laid out for me. In this Romans 12 challenge that I have have laid out for myself, I have already been taught so much, and that's just from the one breakdown I've done of Romans 12:1-2. Romans 12:2 tells us that when we align ourselves with God we will be able to tell what path is for us. So get yourself right with God! Stop sitting up in your room coughing! Go do something about it. Make Decisions for yourself that will make your Father happy.
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