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Good morning brothers and sisters. I pray this day finds you full of our Lord and Savior. I have not always been good and getting instructions. Well, in fact I don't right hated it. I was strong willed and I didn't need anyone telling me what to do. I could figure it out myself. And the very sad reality is, I treated Jesus the same way. I would say I love you Lord, I believe in you Lord but I got this. I want to go this way. I want to do that. I am saying this. And you know where it got me- heartache. Now that I am older and truly learning what it means to love Jesus, to obey Jesus, to follow Jesus, I know that I need to heed His word. I look back and I have always believed in Jesus but never on Him. I knew He was real and what the Bible says is true. I just never made it personal. I never made the Jesus my Lord. But before I truly learned to follow Jesus, I followed religion. And again I still had a lot of heartache. But I also realized that we were all in the same boat believing what we have always been told. Then one day it stopped. I prayed and truly asked God for Him to be in my life. And now to this day, I am still learning. And God lead me to this scripture. Proverbs 15:32-33- He who disdains instruction, despises his own soul. But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding. The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom. And before honor is humility. I dare you to look at some Proverbs. God tells us in this proverb that if we do not like to be told what to do, we hate ourselves. And then He gives us the answer to knowledge. HIM! He is the answer. Have a blessed day and rise up children of God, rise up!