God compels you to repent and turn to Him, but He does NOT FORCE YOU! And how you respond to His compulsion, conviction, and truth, is YOUR CHOICE!!
But the scriptures tell us, that IF we humble ourselves in His sight, HE WILL lift us up!
James 4:10
"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.""Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you."
Did you know that humility, coupled with fearing the Lord, brings riches and honor?
Proverbs 22:4
"By humility and the fear of the Lord Are riches and honor and life."In contrast you have the Israelites who were stiff necked and hard hearted and would not humble themselves even after seeing the great victories and deliverances of Almighty God!
Exodus 32:7-10
"And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ” And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”Hebrews 3:7-19
"Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath,‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said:You can harden yourself when truth comes to challenge your beliefs, you can harden yourself when the Spirit of God convicts your soul, of sin, rightousness, and judgment, you can harden yourself when you know you've done wrong and should repent. It's not that difficult to resist God's grace, His love and mercy towards you.
Humble or Harden, The choice is yours!






