Consequences to Disobedience
In 2008 I was deployed to Kuwait. While there, I walked past two guys who were sitting at a table outside the barracks where I lived. The Holy Spirit made it extremely clear that I was supposed to go over and talk with those guys - I didn't go. I've always wondered what would have happened if I had obeyed God instead of me.
Today, I was reminded of how I used to climb through the window of the chapel of Norwich University at night just to sit there and ponder life. I wasn't a born again Christian in those days - that came 20 years later - but I was certainly open.
Was someone supposed to come and talk with me during that time and, like I did years later, ignored the direction of the Holy Spirit? If so, what would have been different - for me and others - if I had given my life to Jesus in 1982 rather than 2002?
In the end, it is what it is. God's ultimate plan will happen despite his children not obeying Him all the time. That being said, Jesus is quite clear we are to do the will of the Father - foremost of which is to "make disciples of all the earth". There are consequences for not doing God's will and continuously not doing it puts you on really, really thin ice.
I cannot say what the consequences were for the person who was supposed to talk with me (if that, indeed, is what was supposed to happen), but the consequences of my not knowing Jesus in those 20 years were numerous and hurtful to many people.
Now God, being the merciful Father He is, gave me a beautiful daughter through all of this, but I can't help thinking I would have received this wonderful gift, but without so many of the issues, if I had come to faith sooner...if that person would have talked to me back in 1982.
I pray that my disobedience did not result in the same types of issues for one or both of those guys in Kuwait.
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