Tuesday's Thoughts

Proverbs 16:25, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” (NKJV) 

Proverbs 16:25, “Before every man there lies a wide and pleasant road he thinks is right, but it ends in death.” (TLB)

Proverbs 16:25, “There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, But its end is the way of death.” (AMP)

Proverbs 16:25, “There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.” (NLT)

I feel led to share the passages of scripture that I shared this past Sunday at New River. I am very concerned with the spiritual direction of our nation but I am also very concerned with the spiritual direction of what we may reference as the “church” in America. There are many religious ideas that are being presented as the “way” to God. The word “God” is often used in our nation but we are at the point we have to ask this question, “Which god are you referencing?”

I desire for the “way” that I am traveling to be the “right way” that leads me to the presence of the True and Living God!! This is not the day or the time to be on a road of life that “seems right” or one that I “think is right.” I cannot travel a road of life that “appears right” to me or to someone else. I must take heed and discern the various voices that desire to move me away from the “way” that pleases God.

I believe in the Word of God. I believe in the promises of God that are declared in the Word of God. I believe in the God that is revealed in the Word of God. I believe that the “way to God” will take me to Calvary where I will discover the cross where Jesus was crucified. Jesus shed His blood that I might experience freedom as well as deliverance from the sins that “so easily ensnare” my life or your life.

We live in a world that desires for the “flesh” (human desires and human understanding) to direct our path. God desires for the “Holy Spirit” to direct our path. We have to answer this question correctly; “Will I choose to follow my own way or will I make the correct decision to follow God’s way?”