Heed the Warning

One of the lessons from this week's Come, Follow Me lesson is that God's warnings are only helpful if we listen to them. Paul warned his centurion guard that, if they sailed at that time, great harm would come to the ship and everyone on it. Yet, the centurion listened instead to the ship's owner, who said that everything would be fine. They sailed despite Paul's warning, and, sure enough, they got caught in a devastating storm. Often, we can avoid certain hardships and problems simply by heeding God's warnings against them, but if we don't listen to those warnings, they won't do us any good. Just hearing a warning is never enough. For a warning to help us, we also need to heed it.