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Yesterday I had a dream in which the setting was a rural one. I am reminded of the hill country of West Virginia. Our property was on the hillside. The time was as days gone by. I was a young lad.  

One day, my brother and I ventured off onto the property of one of our neighbors and corrupted it in some way: not in a very malicious way — but non-the less. We were doing just the kind of thing that you might expect young boys to do. We were doing something that Dad had told us not to do. Dad was a disciplinarian.  

Word got back to Dad of what had happened and somehow, we knew it and we also knew that we would be dealt with by dad when he got home.  

That evening we saw dad coming home up the hill in the distance and I knew that I had better not be home when he got there. I took off, further up the hill, and across a stream to my friend’s house and right past my friend’s brother that was fishing on the bridge. I continued across the property of our neighbors and over to the separate living quarters of my friend, their son.  

In my haste to elude my father, I barely knocked on the door before entering and discovered that he was not home.  

So now look at me! I have trespassed on one neighbor’s property and done the same thing on yet another’s. The root of these misdoings (this could be called by another name, or two), disobedience. Here is what one prophet told a disobedient king in the Bible when that king failed to follow the instructions of God:  

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (1 Samuel 15:23)  

Disobedience before the Lord is NOT a good thing. I repent, here and now before the Lord. I ask for forgiveness. I beg the Lord that He will strengthen me to do as I am told, not doubting. I resolve to move forward earnestly and expeditiously in the ministry to which I have been called.  

May all the Glory be to God!