Instruction Manual

The instruction Manual

I remember many Christmas ago I was putting together this gift we bought the girls. I remember looking at the package and thinking oh this is not going to take long at all. So I dumped out all the parts and placed them in piles. I looked at the box and said I got this. I remember someone telling me should you read the instructions to this. I said no I got it. I looked at the box and said this it will not be hard at all. Oh yea I forgot this was at 10pm at night and Christmas was the next day. So I started to work on this thing I remember I started to get so frustrated because it was not doing what it was supposed to do. By this time it was about midnight and their mom was inside laying everything out and then she walked out and said are you not done yet and I turned and looked at her a said no. She said have you looked at the instructions I said no I got this and she said ok. Then she laid the instructions down next to me and I looked at them and said whatever. I kept going and getting more and more frustrated by this time it was about 2am. I remember getting up and saying this can’t be that hard what is going on and why can’t I do this. So about 3am I picked up the instructions and started reading them. So I followed the instructions and finished it in about an hour. So what took me about 5 hours to figure out myself and I didn’t even do that took me an hour after reading instructions.

So brings me to Proverbs 13:13 “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who hears the commandment will be rewarded”. The Bible contains thorough instructions which, if followed, will lead to fulfillment, righteous and salvation. But if we choose to ignore Gods Commandments the results are as predictable and they are tragic.  A righteous life has many components: Faith, honesty, Love, kindness, humility, gratitude, and worship, to the name Jesus Christ, we must seek to live according to his will. Let’s us follow his instructions, and let us conduct our lives in such a way that we might be shinning examples for those who have not yet found Christ.  God gives us instructions to follow let us his instructions and not waste time trying to do it ourselves. There is a reason we have them.