"If I Give You Advice"----------

"....If I give you advice, you won't listen to me anyway." ( Jeremiah 38:15c, HCSB)

These are words of Jeremiah to King Zedekiah.  I have had people over the years, as a pastor, tell me that if I saw anything in their life which needed corrected, I should tell them.  The first time I tried it our text played out.

I have done this in "my walk" in the Lord; how often, I dread to think.  Our text is an admonition to you and me today.  The Bible is God's, "advice," (of course we know it is so much more) to us.  Remember:  "To obey is better than sacrifice," which means, "....better than..," prayer, mission work, worship, giving to the poor.

Jesus' Prayer in the Gethsemane was/is thematic, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."  This "theme" must dominate me, everywhere, always, whatever I do.

Father, in Jesus' Name, "....not as I will, but as You will."  I pray that my will is Your will.  Amen.

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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2