Great morning! How are we faithing? Who steers your life? Who or what guides your decision making? I watch people who run rampant with their own life road map and get lost in all sorts of things. Roads taken seeking the next cool thing. I see people dive into themselves so deep that others around them suffer for their choices and they fail to see the ruts in the road they are making. The next person that comes along has to navigate those ruts. Does that mean all the right roads ought to be smooth? No, but blazing a new trail without consideration of those that follow can be dangerous. Jesus already plotted the course for us and our compass is the Word. Our guide is the Holy Spirit. But just like we all like different modes of transportation, God guides us and we all reach the destination at different times. Some like bikes, some like cars, some like trucks, some like walking. The ones walking see more on the side of the road. The ones on bikes can take side excursions, the ones in cars take more with them and the trucks push on through the night to reach the final destination. You have to decide which direction God has set before you. You have to seek out which mode of conveyance is necessary for the goal before you. How you ask? The Word daily and prayer without ceasing. If your side excursions cause you to loose your way, stop, turn around and find your way back to the road. If you are going way to fast towards the goal to see the scenery, slow down, observe what God has created around you. If you stumble and fall while walking, get back up, use the Holy Spirit as your walking stick and don't give up. If you are in that truck driving all night and wearing your self out trying to reach the goal, take a break, pray, rest, replenish so you can meet the needs around. Think about where you are on this life road and who and how you effect others. This is the time, because time is short, to be sure you are on the road to Jesus and you don't have the wrong map....
2 Timothy 1:6-7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
NKJV
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
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1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
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Psalms 119:40-42
Behold, I long for Thy precepts;
Revive me through Thy righteousness.
May Thy lovingkindnesses also come to me, O LORD,
Thy salvation according to Thy word;
So I shall have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Thy word.
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Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your guidance in our lives. Lord, we ask for clarity for each of us. Help us recognise needs. Help us not be quick to anger. Help us reach out in wisdom to the hurting. Lord, thank you for your son that saves wretches like us. Thank you that you gave us a map we can trust in this life. Lord we lift those to you who are seeking truth and wisdom. Let them not be lured or fooled by mans wisdom but let them only see you, in Jesus name, amen
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