YOUR PATH OR HIS?

We are like little children stamping our feet in the corner and screaming because we are not getting our way!  We think we know best, so we ignore what our parent says.  We don’t want to learn because we know it all.

Would we let our little one play on the highway?   What about a game of bank and robbers on a train track?   Of course not!  Why?  Because we want the best for our children, and we want them to live!  They don’t see this, though.  All they see is that they want to do something, and we are the mean ones that are getting in the way of their fun and enjoyment.  They don’t understand that playing on a highway or train track can cause death.

Yet we have become overgrown children who want our own way.  We are selfish.   It’s normal for people to mature and have their own thoughts and ideas, but when we do this outside of God’s boundaries, it can lead us to death.   But most people don’t care!!!  Same as the child in the corner, they aren’t thinking about the consequences.  They just want THEIR WAY!  Their way is best!  They are trying to do it their way, and some don’t care about anything else but winning.  Most aren’t even attempting to know what God’s boundaries are, let alone trying to live within them.   To know God, you must seek God.

Our God is a loving God.  His boundaries are not there to keep us from having fun.  Oh no, quite the contrary.  His boundaries are designed to protect us and keep us safe on the narrow path.  The enemy of truth has cooked up many schemes to attract us off that safe path, and most times he attracts us off through our very own selfishness and we don’t even see that it is a trap because the world tells us that we should get what we want and live like we want. 

God wants more than that, though.  He wants our eternal happiness and joy.   Eternal death is much worse than the death we think about.  Our death from earth is truly just our birth into eternal life.  I can’t imagine the horror that one would experience when he realizes that he selfishly spent his whole life playing on a highway- and now he will be experience true death- for eternity.  What could we possibly want that would be worth that?

So, how do we know?  How do we know if we are walking on that safe path or if are walking on the path to perdition?   We seek truth.  Many people think that truth is relative and that we can have our own truth.  That is a trick by the evil one.  And sadly today, many are being seduced by this lie because they see so many others walking down this path with them.  Are we seeking our way or God’s way?  We can scream loud and shout and stamp our feet, but in the end we will get to see through the eyes of truth and we will find that the path we create does not end in a very nice place whereas God’s path leads us to beauty and joy that makes the best we have here seem like a mere facade.  So seek to find the safe path, and the only way to find it is to fight against your own selfish self-interests and seek God!