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The -proud- challenge dependence on the Lord, and so doing, they establish their own means of sustenance and health. Not wanting to keep God in control of their -supply lines-; they prostitute themselves to the world, commit whoredom with Babylon. Babylon is turn is happy to indulge in -liberating- people from the controlling -avaricious- clutches of God, to provide them with everything they need and even want, especially with what God in his great wisdom has restrained. After all, wasn't it the devil who offered the forbidden fruit (Gen 3:1-6) And wasn't it the same devil who offered the glories of the kingdoms of the world to Jesus, but without the price of the crucifixion (Mat 4:8-9)
The way of God is usually straight and narrow (Mat 7:14), even the land of milk and honey was not obtained without a fight. The Word of God was given on a mountain. To get it, Moses had to climb out of his comfort zone; leave behind the comfort of home. A seventy year old Nepali Sharpah can carry up the Himalayas Mountains a load that would make our valley young people faint, and they do not have health problems due to fat around their heart.
procrastinating Indulgence and easy life makes the heart grow fat, weak and corrupt. It greases it with excuses, covers it with fatness so that it becomes insensitive to God and to others. It becomes an island isolated from the world, everything and everybody else, and where everything is done out of concern for self-preservation.
May God help me to yield when the way is hard. May He help me to trust when the bend blinds the way. My comfort is His Word oh so secure Who hath promised me rest at the end of the day.
Luk 4:6-7 KJV And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it comfortzone. (7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
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