You can thwart God's good purposes for your life

SUMMARY: God has great blessings and plans for our lives, but we have the power to frustrate and impede them by disobedience or stubbornness. This is illustrated in salvation, where God wants everyone to be saved, but many people do not follow the prescriptions for salvation and end up losing their souls. Our attitude can allow or prevent God's benevolent purposes from being realized in our lives. It is important to have a good heart to receive God's blessings.

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.