You can thwart God's good purposes for your life

It is important that we understand that many times God has benevolent purposes, has great blessings and plans for our lives. The terrible and dangerous thing about it is that we have the power to frustrate - and this may sound a bit scandalous and controversial - we have the power to frustrate and impede the great blessings that God has for us. The Bible establishes this truth over and over again, insistently.

God has allowed human beings, in their free will, in their freedom with which He has created them, have the right to close the doors to the blessing that He already has prepared for them, by disobedience or simply by stubbornness, or because they love plus the attractions of the world, or whatever. We can lose or hinder the blessings that God has intended for us. Esau, Samson, King Joash, as well as other biblical characters, can bear witness to this mysterious truth.

I would say, one of the clearest illustrations of this is salvation. God sent his son Jesus Christ to redeem and save mankind. Christ died on the cross, he lived here on earth, he had three years of ministry, he left his established Church, he left a wealth of spiritual instruction for all of us. In God's purpose, He wants everyone to be saved, the Word tells us. God wants "all to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3: 9).

God does not have a quota for people to be saved. God does not say, "Only 144 thousand, or ten million will be saved." Not! God wants everyone to come to salvation. That is his true fatherly wish.

What's going on? Many people do not follow the prescriptions that God has established for salvation, and they end up losing and ruining their souls because they do not obey what God commands, as simple as accepting Christ as their Lord and Savior; receive Jesus, walk in the ways that he has established. So, we see that in those who are lost, God's benevolent purpose is frustrated. Although God knows all things, his fatherly desire would be that all his creatures take refuge under the name of Jesus as the savior of their souls.

You will remember the time when the Lord looked toward Jerusalem and said, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How many times did I want to cover you like a hen covers her chicks, and you didn't! " (Matthew 23:37). And then he adds, "Behold, your house is left to you deserted." The hardness of heart of the Hebrew people prevented God from covering and protecting them as He desired. Instead of blessing, there was curse and loss.

We see, then, a very important first principle: Your attitude, be it obedient or unbelieving, can allow or prevent God's goodwill and benevolent purposes from being realized in your life. In you is the power to facilitate or hinder the good things that God has in store for you. It is important that your heart is good soil, so that God's seed of blessing can bear fruit within you.