It isn’t a good idea to let human nature take its own course. The last thing you should do is let yourself always do what you want. We need a pathway to walk in, otherwise we get very lost. Our inner navigation system is broken so we should not follow it. God is not telling us that we must become perfect in order to be accepted by him. He simply wants us to trust in his desires for us rather than what we imagine will satisfy us. Jeremiah addresses a people who had let themselves go. They had indulged their own desires without any restraint or self-doubt. God had tried to wake them up with various indicators of the consequences of their lifestyles, but they refused to respond. They had gained so much momentum in pursuing their own course that they would not stop no matter what happened to them. Have you had times in your life when you have ‘let yourself go’, that is, when you gave way to your own impulses and just kept going with this for a time? Where did this lead you? Everyone who has done this at some time knows that it leads to a very empty and desolate place. Indulging your disoriented desires may give some immediate satisfaction but in the end it just doesn’t work for us. It never has. No-one has ever lived happily who did this. Spend some time reflecting on where you may have let yourself go lately. Admit this to God and seek his forgiveness. Ask him to lead you in his path.
Do what I have suggested.
Read Jeremiah 5
