IN ALL YOUR WAYS......ACKNOWLEDGE HIM! AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR PATHS STRIAGHT! YOU KNOW,it is real easy to get lost these days...on a family trip in north carolina we were in the Pisgah National forest at sliding rock...not hard to find! Then we ventured to upper creek falls...the hard way..still not to bad..as we jumped in the freezing cold mountain water until we began to get dizzy from the body temp drop..we were talking with some familes and they said we should go to babel tower falls..there we could safley cliff dive into some swift moving unknown watrers 30 ft below...oxy moron!...so i just had to go find this place.. .a blue sign that said wilderness and babel tower/peice of cake...your kidding me right?? well i was on a quest and unfourtunatley for my family ..so were they. I found the sign and down the trail we went....we got into some very dangerous spots...as i began to question my sanity while looking over the edge of a mile drop straight down...it would take search and rescue days to get you out...with one wrong step..and believe me, the steps were narrow and uncertain. We all had to work together, holding onto each other at some points..and with alot of sweat and about a dozen nervous angels watching over us we made it down the mountain trail..alive. Only to find we were in the wrong place.BUMMER...Dads are not suppose to lead there families into danger and down the wrong path....what was i thinking. I didnt acknowledge a map, true north or anything..i just thought i saw the right sign...and went headlong into danger!!! In this proverb,GOD IS SAYING KEEP ME AS THE REFERENCE POINT OF YOUR LIFE...FOR ALL THE AREAS OF YOUR LIFE ..that seem grey or unclear..where the lines get blurred...just ask would this honor GOD/ all your ways means...ALL YOUR WAYS! do i honor God with my TIME? MONEY? ENTERTAINMENT? FRIENDS? CLOTHES? RELATIONSHIPS? ATTITUDES? THOUGHTS? I know thats alot to make god the center of ...but it says all your ways...there has to be a true north in your life a cental refenece point or you will get lost and drift with the culture on to destruction by the same things that carry them away from God....JUST ONE LITTLE DRINK....JUST ONE TIME....JUST THIS ONCE...WONT HURT ANYONE...HAVE you ever noticed how much stronger the temptation gets when you are walking down an unmarked path...meaning away from GOD..aka not praying or reading scripture..not really? Thats because when we get used to drifting our heasrt gets hard ..sin creeps in and we get farther from God...where are you right now? STOP I REALLLY WANT YOU TO JUST THINK FOR A MOMENT TAKE A DEEP LOOK INSIDE.....WOULD YOU LIKE TO REALLY AVOID DANGER...If you could jump up on a rock and get a panoramic view...where would you be? If you were God looking down at your life..would you be saying we have grown far apart??? consider your ways ..your paths...are you going down a trail that leads you away from him...simply because you choose this way while your heart was hard and blinded by selfishness and sin? Act 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God,
so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the
Lord, TURN YOUR FACE FROM THAT WAY..RECOGNIZE HIS FACE..TURN TOWARDS IT..HIS FACE OF LOVE AND GRACE..AND RUN TO HIM....GET ON YOUR KNEES AND SPILL IT OUT ...PEACE!
Repent, then, and turn to God,
so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the
Lord, TURN YOUR FACE FROM THAT WAY..RECOGNIZE HIS FACE..TURN TOWARDS IT..HIS FACE OF LOVE AND GRACE..AND RUN TO HIM....GET ON YOUR KNEES AND SPILL IT OUT ...PEACE!