#soap # Isaiah 47 ## Title: Repent Before Judgement Falls ## Scripture: (Isaiah 47:15) “They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”” (NET) ## Observation: This is not a fun topic to discuss but a needful one. No one wants to look at their life and see the need for change. We all want to look at our life and see progress or the fruits of our labor. However, the wisest person in the room realizes that we all have to make course corrections from time to time. This doesn’t mean we are failures. A failure would be to continue blindly moving forward and ignoring all the warning signs. So what are the warning signs that point to our need to make course corrections in our lives? Here are a few: Do you find yourself at a hurried pace no matter what day it is and never feeling like you have done enough? This may mean you are finding your worth and value from something other than God. Do you find yourself unable to live without something for an extended period of time? It runs your life instead of the other way around. This may mean you are self-medicating with this and not relying on God as your source of strength. There are more, but take an inventory in this way. Ask yourself if there is anything you are unwilling to give up for 30 days if God asked you to do so. If so, this does not mean you have to cut it out, but it may mean you need to find out why you are so attached and put it back under God’s authority in your life. ## Application: Change before you have to. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for loving us enough to put up an occasional mirror so we can see the state of our soul.