The road less traveled.................which path do I take?
God has me on a journey............Seeking Him who died for us. Desiring Him who rose for us.
Knowing I am nothing more than, "jars of clay." (weak)
I often pray for a life that points upward to God but am I being transformed? Transformed into His likeness?
We live in an upside down world....... where down is up and up is down.
The world is full of so many paths.........but which path is our designation?
Do I turn to the right or to the left?
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. ( Isaiah 30:21)
Wanting so badly to be on the path that enables me to recognize my death unto sin!
Maybe it's me with my self-centered self afraid...................afraid to die!
I think about the changes seen in the shell we call our body...............and how it breaks down. I take in the words of Billy Graham in the Sunday newspaper:
"......No one ever taught me how I ought to live the years before I die. I wish they had...."
I have been looking back at my life. It is a different season now after the prayer retreat.
Seeing paths in my past that would have been better........not for my comfort or ease but paths that would have been wiser.............. more grace.......more love, less rules!
Some of the scales are continuing to fall from my eyes daily...........but again I grieve because I sometimes wonder;
"do I truly want to see?"
God is leading me..........to a road less traveled........... one where you listen more.........sit alone in silence more............live life with less words. I still cry out in the stillness........more of the easy Lord! I say I want more of Him...........but am I willing to take the road less traveled! The one where it may be harder to climb..... the one that could cause more scrapes and bruises.
Will He carry me when the burden gets heavy? The road less traveled is steep and dangerous.
Is the King of Kings urging me to step out in faith? I want to learn the things He has for me.......but at what cost? Less comfort? Less money? Less rest? Is the steep and dangerous harder than I care to try?
Where is my trust? My faith? Is it all just hope?
My feet may be weary...........my heart may ache.............but there is a God in heaven who wants to take the wheel if I will let him.
"Remember that you have only one soul; that you only have one death to die; that you only have one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and that there is only one glory, which is ETERNAL!
Teresa of Avila
all of grace,
Robbie
