Fearing God and being humble before God
is the opposite of resisting God.
For all those things hath Mine hand made,
and all those things have been, saith the Lord:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at My word. Isaiah 66:2
Many warnings to follow. These are not all the warnings in His word.
He has many more. These are just a glimpse.
Take heart how resisting God can impede your walk with Christ.
There are some severe consequences that come with resisting God.
Resisting God can and does mean a lot of things.
We learn how important it is to love the truth in 2 Thessalonians 2:
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. v 10
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie: v 11
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. v 12
First we see we must love the truth.
How does anyone receive a love for the truth?
Is that a choice? Is it humility? Is it taking Jesus at face value?
Accepting that Jesus is who He says He is
and that He did what God’s word says He did for all mankind.
That Jesus is the Risen Savior who advocates for us to God the Father.
If we refuse to love the truth of His word,
God Himself shall send a strong delusion.
Who wants God to send a strong delusion to you?
The end result?
That they will be damned because they had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Pleasure in unrighteousness can bring damnation.
Resisting God and insisting on our own way can lead us down a dark path.
God is always wanting people to repent. He is looking for repentance.
Jesus is always looking for those who want to follow Him whole-heartedly.
With these people, we see they cannot grasp the truth
and that their lusts lead them astray from God and His righteousness:
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:5-7
We cannot play with fire.
Touch not the unclean thing.
Make your choice.
Making a choice not to love the truth is also a choice.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28
God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Let’s look before this to find out why.
Why would God give them over to a reprobate mind?
It all seems to go back to the title, Resisting God.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen. Romans 1:25
Choosing their own way.
Not loving the truth, not submitting to God’s ways, not fearing the Lord.
Putting themselves above the word of God, they went their own way.
Sensitivity and humility before the Holy Spirit is imperative.
We can’t truly worship God without loving the truth.
But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. John 4:23
You want God to seek you?
God desires us to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
No fakeness. No our way.
Putting aside our pride and our foolish ways of thinking,
in fear and humility, letting God be God and relishing in that fact.