9.13- Although I spend some time on the wrong path at times,...

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9.13-



Although I spend some time on the wrong path,


The way of Jesus is a hard path, but not as hard as the path without Him.
Some who had joy following His path will leave Him when things get tough.
As for me, I have no other place to go. I’ve tried other paths and on bad days spend some time on the wrong path, but for me the Jesus’ path is definitely the one.
Why?
He is the one who has given me hard words, but kept loving me.
He is the one who gave me my best times in life.
He is the one who has taught me where people go when they leave this earth.
He is the one who has taught me to believe in the truth of my life and go with it. To speak the truth to myself or nothing at all.
He is the one who has stilled the storms in my life.
He is the one who reminds me that journey is the destination. The time for contentment is now. Today.
He is the one who is teaching me not to waste anything. Especially trials.
He reminds me to take stock of what I have instead of what I don’t have and use it to bless others.
He taught me that decisions have consequences for today and forever.
He is teaching me that what I believe sets the course of my future. Very often if I believe I can walk, I can walk. If I believe it can move forward I can move forward. Just when I quit blaming others for my problems, my problems become solved.
He has used me to teach others and this has to be His effect on me.
He has helped me to see who has helped me by planting the crop that I am harvesting.
He has helped me by giving me the courage to confess the sinful things I have done that have hurt my relationships with my spouse, my children and my grandchildren and my siblings.
He has helped me to move away from ritual religion into a relationship.
He has helped me to stay with one job for thirty years and one career for 42 years after some time of job hopping.
He has set up an ability to trust the inner comforter and guide within me.

John 6.


60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[e] and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)


Larry Wishard
9.12.17

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