The Right Path

The Right Path

Verse of the Day: “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭3:12-14‬

A great trio of verses that says a lot. It says stay in your belief in God and don’t harden your hearts through sin. Exhort one another. Stay strong in your trust in God. 

Sounds easy enough. 

The Israelites failed to do this and God sent them into the wilderness for 40 days to wander. 

If we turn away from God and live in sin, God can leave us there. If we push God aside for sin - we have hardened our hearts to Him. If we refuse to allow God to work in our lives, He may let us walk on the wrong path. As believers we have chosen God to lead us on the right path. 

When I was younger my grandparents raised my brother and I. We grew up in a crazy childhood full of chaos. My grandparents worked hard to keep us in church, vacation Bible school and on the right path. Somewhere along the line in my adult years I wandered. I didn’t stop believing in God, but I didn’t give myself to Him either.

I allowed a few steps in the wrong direction to become a walk on the wrong path. I let sin harden my heart. I let deceitfulness guide me away from God. I walked a long way on that path away from God. It almost seemed impossible to find my way back. We all have things in our lives and our past that we aren’t proud of. Some, like me, have huge things. But you can return. 

I departed from God. He didn’t depart from me. And I am so thankful for that. I truly believe that God worked to get my attention for so long, but my life of sin hardened my heart to His efforts. Until He used a circumstance in my life where I had to make a choice. 

I could’ve used excuses to stay on that wrong path. I could’ve blamed God. I could’ve blamed other people. But I didn’t. I chose to return. I chose to do everything I could possibly imagine, so that God would not forsake me. Even though I knew he wouldn’t. Even though I had already made some wrong turns, I turned back to Him. Even though I knew that there would be so many more obstacles in my life I knew I would rather walk with God than without Him. 

There are some that will keep one foot on the wrong path and one on the right path. That’s a dangerous game.  I chose to get off the wrong path completely. I choose to be a partaker of Christ and I’m so thankful that I did. I choose to give up my will for His. I chose to stay steadfast in my confidence in Him until the end. 

God makes Himself available to everyone to partake in Him. By doing so you will have everlasting life in Heaven. It’s free, it doesn’t cost you a thing, unless you don’t. 

Let God be everything in your life.  Pray every day, read your Bible daily, go to church always and surround yourself with like-minded believers.

“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7:14‬

“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬