Somehow, the life a of a disciple to Christ Jesus should look so radically different, at least that’s a thought that has passed through my head several times. Today the immediate thought afterwards was, isn’t God’s mercy incredible. Because if we all faced immediate consequence as in the case of Annanias and Sephira, for lying about their offering to God, as in the case with Aaron’s sons, who were struck dead for using the wrong incense, or as in the case of Adam and Eve,who each were banished from the garden with a specific, ongoing generational consequence that we are still reeling from today… we would all be dead. The truth is that the same sin that brings consequence into unbelievers life, brings consequences into ours..

So here is yet observation for today. There is a very clear biblical cycle. I was reminded of this while watching the presidential inauguration prayer breakfast. It looks something like this. There is one relatively righteous generation that gets blessed abundantly, not because they are perfect, but because they get their hearts right with God, and I mean to the point of actually obeying His Word whole heartedly. Then this is followed by a series of unfaithful generations… and things get worse and worse and worse until they get so bad, that God takes radical action. So all the generations in between could falsely get the impression that God doesn’t care, that He isn’t keeping track, and that they will escape the consequences. I can only speak for me, but I can confess that I have looked to a person’s life before to gage if they are blessed or cursed. But the above being true, this is truly one of the easiest ways to be deceived into thinking just because the consequence isn’t visible, it isn’t surely coming. Oh Father, just get my eyes off of people altogether, In Jesus name.