Rebellion…

Rebellion is everywhere, our children have rebelled because they thought that what we were advising them on was ‘shady’ to them, and all they ever wanted is to be popular in class, hang out with the cool kids, and by so doing they can have a sense of ‘belonging.’ Sometimes I look back at things I did while I was young and yet my parents advised me not to, and I feel so stupid! I keep asking myself, why on earth did I do that? is it our human nature to rebel? Why do we do that? The day before yesterday while I was at work, I got a call from home advising me that my youngest son had hit another boy with a stone and he was bleeding. At fast I was lost for words and I was wondering what led him to do what he did, but still, no matter what, I did not advocate for him to hit another boy with a stone! I spoke to the boys mother and apologised profusely for what my son did, and thank God she was understanding and even mentioned that the cut was small, and it was something that was to be managed at home. After that reassurance, I call home to speak to the young man who did that, and I am told he was hiding underneath the bed and he refused to speak to me because he was afraid and so I had to wait until I got home to be able to speak to him. When I arrived, I opened the door, and our eyes met, he was shaken, I said Hi, but he was too afraid to even answer me. I sat down and I called him over, asked him what led him to hit the boy with a stone and he said that the boy kept beating him up with blows, he said that he had tried to make him stop, but he just didn’t listen and so he got angry and hit him with a piece of stone. To cut the long story short, I had to discipline him for what he did, and to make him understand that what he did was wrong, because the boy could have being injured badly. Where am I going with this? my son rebelled, yet he knew that what he was doing was wrong and that is why he hid himself away from everyone.

This is what rebellion brings about, fear! fear comes in after you realise that what you did was wrong and you hide yourself away. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they hid themselves away and covered their bodies with leaves, when God asked them why they hid, they said because they were afraid!. Rebellion comes from the devil, he makes the sin look so enticing, so good, but when you commit the sin, he brings about guilt, he brings about shame. King Saul thought to himself, that he was doing a good thing by saving all the good cattle, yet he disobeyed God. No matter how and what angle that we look at it from, rebellion is bad and its consequences are even worse. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Romans 6:23. When we rebel, we separate ourselves from God, 1John 3:5-6 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No-one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No-one who continues to sin has either seen him or known.

Blessings!!