Warning Signs

       Have you noticed that once you get accustomed to something, that it's significance begins to fade away?  Even signs that express danger can finally have no meaning if they are overused.  While working in a certain company years ago, we were plagued with an abundance of warning labels and signs on the equipment.  Soon, the meaning began to be lost.  Each time a new warning label came out, it had to either be bigger or bolder or in a different color than the one which preceded it.  It is possible to see something and not take notice of it.  At the same time, it is possible to hear something and also not take notice of it.  Over the years, the old siren has changed into a chorus of loud sounds in order to be heard and recognized.  God used a similar illustration when speaking of the rebellious people of the nation of Israel.  Ezekiel 12:2 says, "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house." 
      The Israelites had eyes, ears and a mind, yet they ignored the warnings.  They no longer had any meaning to them and they figured that they knew best and that God wouldn't do anything anyway.  They soon found out that God does mean what He says and that judgment will come.  The same can be said of us.  How often we see warnings in the Scripture and still ignore them thinking that God is not going to do anything about them.  But, God is not mocked and the warnings will be heeded either now or later.  This does have a flip side.  Since God is faithful in His judgments, it brings assurance that He is also faithful in His blessings.  All of the blessings that He has promised to us will also come to pass just as He said.  So, don't become numb to the sights and sounds of the Scripture.  Rather rejoice in what God is doing in your life each day and look forward to more new and wonderful things.  Praise God today for His Word and for both the blessings and the cursings.