Don't Miss the Signs

Lately I've been little off schedule when it comes to my Tuesday blogs. I'm very particular about this segment for the simple fact that I don't want to misinterpret what I hear from God. If I'm completely honest for just a moment, I have had so much going on lately that I don't know if I'm coming or going, and my emotions have been so all over the place I wasn't sure what God was trying to tell me. But I definitely have the clarity now. 

In this season, God wants you to know to not miss the signs. You have to have your eyes open at all times. Unfortunately, I had to learn that through a heartbreak and a quite dramatic falling out with some people, but there were things that happened before then that were warning signs that I blatantly disregarded. I need y'all to understand that the enemy is not playing any games right now. The enemy knows what looks attractive to you and will use that very thing to pull you away from God' purpose for your life. 

Take a look at the classic story, Adam and Eve. If you don't know where to find it, it's in Genesis chapter 2 starting at verse 4. God told Adam and Eve specifically not to eat from that tree. There were so many other options for them, but what happened? 

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Eve went over to that tree anyway and ate of the tree. Why? The serpent brought it to her attention that eating of the tree would make her as wise as God. Why would she want that? I'm not really sure, but either way that was a desire of hers. What the enemy does is present you with the very thing you want and tries to convince you that it won't hurt you. Need an example?

I'll get a little personal. I desire to be married and to have a family. If I could've had that by now, I would've been happy. With this last relationship, on our first outing, he literally was saying everything that I wanted to hear. I never told him I wanted those things, but here he was saying exactly what was on my heart. Going into the situation, I didn't see anything wrong. Perhaps everything would've been okay if I would've been obedient to God. I wanted to be a wife so bad that I was fulfilling all the wifely duties (if you know what I mean) without a second thought. I literally would have dreams every night of my first lady coming to me and saying "You better stop sleeping with him. You sleep with him again, and it'll kill you." I really though I was trippin when I saw it. I told God if this serious, I need her to say this to me in real life. That never happened. So I continued sleeping with him, and then BOOM. It all fell apart. 

Before then, I felt like premarital sex was okay, and to some extent I still believe that. But what I didn't realize is it brings so much insecurity. I lost my virginity very young. Ever since then, I'm looking over my shoulder second guessing every man that ever comes to me's motives. I question myself  wanting to know if I am offering anything other than sex. But it's not of God for me to be that insecure. Just like it was not of God for Eve to know that she was naked. 

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked;so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

There was a certain level of childlike innocence that was still there before she ate of the tree. The minute they ate from the tree, they lost sight of what God had called them to do. They were too concerned with covering themselves and protecting themselves when they should've been listening to the one that could've protected them from everything. They didn't need to know that they were naked, but their disobedience cost them everything. 

Your disobedience will bring you more pain than you would've ever experienced before. God tells us these things for a reason. He doesn't just tell us for the sake of speaking to us. Everything He says has a purpose. Everything He creates has a purpose. The Bible says to guard your heart. The minute you let something that is not of God enter your heart, God's purpose for your life is tainted . So now ask yourself was it worth it.