There is nothing more important than the direction we go.  And as a young kid in Sunday School I very much missed that with Abram.

But today, it makes all the sense in the world.

When God said “pack up … and go that way”, Abram obeyed and did just that.

And when Abram did that, God gave him a new name.

Today, that story makes so much sense to me.

We don’t know where we are going, yet we often times run to go there.

It makes no sense.

Some of my days, I am in a hurry to go … yet don’t know where I am going.

I believe that this is why Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, called out life to be “meaningless” … “chasing after the wind”.

And yesterday, I read it again in Proverbs:

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

Paul found this out on the road to Syria.  In a hurry to go gather up and punish those followers of Jesus, he met … Jesus.

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

Peter found this out as Jesus was being beaten in an unfair trial.  He had come to conquer the wrong kingdom.  He wanted the Roman Kingdom, God wanted MUCH MORE.

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

Charles Colson found this out as he went to prison for being a lawyer for President Nixon.

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

And I too have found this out.  My laundry list of mistakes goes on and on and on …

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

I write this to remind all of us … we have goals and aspirations and families and friends … and we have bills to pay and hours to work and stress to deal with.

But as we do these things we have to constantly, and without shame, check our direction.  Because the direction we go … means everything.

John 3 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

And the direction where the Son goes?  That leads to LIFE.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J