Proverbs 14  12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

It is so easy to get lost in this world.

 

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and ask myself:  “How did I get here?”

 

The reality is that all of us get a little lost sometimes…..and even  people who are “found” can get lost….

 

As I read that verse in Proverbs, it resonates with me…….for what is true for one of us is true for all of us.  And when you have a city of people going in the direction “that seems right to a man” it can become broken very quickly.

 

In Luke 15:11-32, God tells us “the story of us” within the context of a parable…the Prodigal Son….And the prodigal son does everything you can do to ruin his destiny:

  • He dishonors his father
  • He takes his inheritance while his father is alive
  • He wastes it
  • He lives in rebellion
  • He finds that the world has nothing for him….his friends are gone, his money is gone, his hope is gone
  • He comes to THE END OF HIMSELF….even stooping to eat pig slop

 

And then he comes to the realization:  I can do better than this by being a servant to my father.

 

And then he turns to return home.

 

God doesn’t tell us to get it right.

He doesn’t tell us to clean it up.

He doesn’t tell us to DO SOMETHING to impress Him

 

He asks us to TURN…..to TURN away from where we want to go and TO HIM.

 

To REPENT is to regret, to turn, and to change one’s mind.  It is to realize that God is what we need and to realize the other stuff is NOT WHAT WE NEED.

 

The reality is this:  The Way we go is of the utmost importance to God.  To take a simple step of going TO Him.

 

There is a reason that He doesn’t give us a list of things that we must do to be in His good graces…..and it is the simple fact that we are so vulnerable to “walk in a way that seems right to us” that, as Proverbs warns us, leads us to darkness.

 

Today:  Keep it simple.

Turn your eyes and your heart and your gaze and your direction and your gratitude and all that you have to Jesus.  Start small and do it for one minute.

 

Ask Him to change your ways.  

  • Ask Him to come and build something in you that you have been trying to get to for years.
  • Ask Him to come heal you of something that has been ailing you for years
  • Ask Him to heal a relationship or a heartache or a trigger.
  • Ask Him to turn your heart from back to front and lead you in the way that you should go

 

As I write this I can feel a conviction and gratitude welling up in me……and I can testify this day of two things:

  1. I am not able to do it on my own and have messed it up time and time again.
  2. He has been faithful and never, ever, let me down in ANY situation……not for a moment.

 

Find the Way……because when you turn to go there He will be right there to meet you.

 

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In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J