the freeway

I heard this on the radio the other day and I think it is a very good analogy. If you are driving on the freeway and you need to get off on a certain exit and you accidently pass that exit do you just keep on driving? Do you say "oops, I misssed my exit, guess I'll just keep on going even though I don't know where I'm headed now, and I'll probably get lost and it won't be easy to get back where I was going." No, that's silly. You would turn around as fast as you could and get back to where you are going. So why don't we do that in life. When we sin we have a habit of saying "oops God, I sinned, please forgive me" but then we keep on sinning. We keep on heading down the freeway getting farther and farther away from our destination. We get lost. And it isn't easy to get back. In life we need to recognize that if we keep on sinning, we get further and further away from God. We can pray and ask for forgiveness all we want but until we stop the sin, until we turn around and say "God I'm coming back on track" our lives will keep going out of control. How foolish we are to think we can keep on sinning and denying the fact that we are off track. The fact of the matter is there is one road, one way and any other way is just the enemy fooling us into destruction. What road are you on today? Did you miss your exit?

paths

It's so easy to look back at my life and see all the things I did wrong, all the bad decisions I made. I think if only I had it to do over what a change I would make, how much better my life would have been. That isn't to say that my life isn't wonderful now, but that is because I have a wonderful God. He has blessed me with a second chance. I can't go back and change the past but with God's grace I have been given the chance to start again.

I have always believed that everything happens for a reason. Now I'm not so sure it's all black and white. Everyday I have a million choices and whatever I choose may affect me differently, but nomatter what God is there and if I choose to seek his help he will help me. I believe what I'm trying to say is this: We may choose the wrong path and yet God still loves us. By His grace, by Jesus dieing on the cross and three days later being resurected, we can be forgiven. We can admit our sins and ask for forgiveness.

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
-Romans 5:8

choices

I heard someone on the radio say



"It's not about what choices we made or what we did or didn't become. It's having faith in God where we are now."



Knowing that He has a plan for us and no matter where are in life we need to just have faith in Him always. He is in control. This goes back to what I was saying about making the wrong choices, leaving the path of God. It's easy to think that once you have made mistakes that there is no hope. You've gone so far off the path that you are ruined. Well that's not the case. Nomatter where we are in our lives all we have to do is lay it out to God. Repent, give it to God and He will forgive us and He can get us back on track.



I am so blessed that He is my God. The only God who sent His Son so that we could be forgiven. How gracious. How merciful. The least we can do is worship Him, live in His word and do His will.