Faith

"The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm."    (Matthew 8:25-26)

A fascinating thing happened the other...week. The sermon began with a question pertaining to the old game "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button". Shortly after that I started seeing buttons pop up every where. I would find one on my desk, on a dresser, on the ground. Every where I went I was seeing buttons that I have never seen before. I have a lot of buttons in my sewing, but these are buttons that no one claims and they are in places that no one would put them. If someone looses a button, they will either tell me or put the button on my bedroom dresser. Buttons were popping up all over. Then I remembered the sermon and asked my husband what the sermon was about that week. The sermon was about God being in control. He is the one who holds the button in our lives. Well as these buttons continued to show up, I wondered what God was trying to tell me. It was the combination of three people who helped me to understand that God wanted me to stop being so worried about my son and one of my daughters. He was in control and everything was as it was suppose to be because HE HAD THE BUTTON.

Isn't He wonderful?

How to stop smoking

About 10 years ago I went to the Father and asked for help to stop smoking. I had smoked for 30 years, smoked through the birth of my 3 children and had tried a few times to quit without success. Then one day I went to the Lord. "Father, I know you do not want me to smoke but I can't come up with a good enough reason to make me want to quit." I explained the numerous reasons I had considered: smoking around children is bad for them (I only smoke outside), cigarettes cause cancer (I'm not sick, yet) to only name a couple. I said, "Maybe you can come up with a good enough reason to quit." When I thought about that I thought, how ridiculous a statement it was. "Of course You can. The problem is getting that information from You to me."

I had always suffered from sinus infections as long as I can remember and had been working through one when I decided it was time to go to the doctor. My doctor usually trusted me because I had so many through the years he had been doctoring me, but this time he decided to do some tests. He came back and told me that my sinus' were as clear as his. So I asked him why I felt this way and he informed me that he thought I was allergic to smoke! "Good one!" I said as I looked up. My doctor must have thought I was really strange.

I quit smoking that day with the help of those stop smoking patches. I was smoke free for an entire year when I got very angry at my husband and started smoking again. After about 6 months to a year I went back to the Lord and told him it did not work. A week later I found out I had ASTHMA!

Now I want to make this very clear. I was originally told I had emphysema which scared the living day lights out of me. It was later determined I had asthma. The asthma, today, some 9 years later, is so mild I only need a rescue inhaler for rare attacks. Possibly reminders that next time, should I start smoking again, I may very well end up with emphysema.

And if that is not enough to convince you that God does answer our prayers, I was told after smoking for 9 years that my lungs were as strong, if not stronger, than any none-smoker. This was determined after the birth of my first child in which I had to breath into this machine and try to get it up to a certain number. I shot the smokers machine up and beyond so fast that the tech asked me again. "You did say that you smoke didn't you? And how much?" I responded that I smoked about 1 1/2 packs a day and have smoked for the last 9 years. I would go up to two packs on occasion, though. The tech went out and brought in another machine and this one was harder but I was able to bring it up to the number the tech asked for...barely, but I did get it there.  I never had any breathing problems or energy problems due to smoking, yet in one weeks time after asking God for a reason that would be strong enough to convince me, He scared me with the first diagnoses of emphysema, later to be reduced to a diagnoses of asthma and finally a non-life threatening mild asthma. BUT, asthma enough to keep me away from cigarettes!


"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8)


 “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)

Choices

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are; it is the choices we make.

Prayer and Supplication

About a year ago, God placed it on my heart that the time has come that we are to prayer prior to delving into anything, that we are to pray about it and we are to also thank Him for everything. That this prayer, listening, and thanksgiving is essential these days if we are to be protected from Satan.(I believe I might have talked about this in an earlier blog, you will have to check it out) But it wasn't until the other day that I was able to put two and two together with the a scripture in Philippians.

"In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Philippians 4:6

Teaching about Jesus

This last week I was talking to a friend who is the pastor of a small church. God had put it on his heart to open a small shop in the business he used to be in. Not understanding exactly why, but trusting the Spirit, he found a small main street store front and build his business part time.
It was very soon apparent what this little shop was to accomplish.

God wants every person on this earth to live with Him in eternity, however, there are so many people who do not attend services, never have gone to church, are afraid of what they may have to do, not do, or change in his or her life. God wants us to "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations," (Matthew 28:19) But how can we if we can not get them into the church? Reach them on their own terms.

My friend answered a call from God to go into the ministry, he then answered another call to open his ministry beyond the church. The store front enabled my friend to talk to people who have not learned about Jesus. He answered a call to go out into the public and introduce them to the Christian life without any expectations or obligations. They came in the store and they can walk out at any time. No threat, no obligation, but how are they going to know if we do not tell them?


The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. (Acts 8:29-31 (New International Version))

May 21, 2011 . 6:00pm

They said the world will end on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at (6:00pm?) and that it is promised by the bible.


“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father." (Matthew 24:36)

Happy Mothers Day

Give thank in every thing you do.
Give Thanks

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks unto the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks unto the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son


And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"
And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

Prayer Warrior

Prayer is such an essential act these days if we are to come through safe and happy in the Lord.
With so much going on in the world today, we need the Lords protection and the only way to get it is through a relationship with Him and acceptance in the gift of our salvation.
We have all heard the phrase "I have accepted Jesus as my personal savior" but do you truly understand what that means? Do you realize that a personal savior is Jesus sitting right next to you, holding you in his arms keeping you from all harm?
Jesus tells us He is the shepherd and we are his sheep. "

11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep." (John 10:11-13)

When Jesus was speaking these words, He was most likely speaking to shepherd and those who understand what a 'good shepherd' was. A good shepherd would protect his sheep at all cost, even at the expense of his own life. When night time would come, the shepherd would lie down at the gate in case any predator would try and steal his sheep. This was something only a dedicated shepherd would do and it is what Jesus has done to protect us.

We must accept his protection from Satan and thank Him every step of the way, even when we think He is wrong for not letting us have our own way in something. And yes, God knows what we need, but it is necessary for us to ask for it. It is like a child whose mother knows the child must eat, but if at 4:00pm the child becomes hungry and does not say to the parent "I am hungry" the parent might continue with his/her day and wait until 6:00pm to feed the child. God knows we need His protection, but if we have reached a point we feel we can no longer handle the problem and we do not say to Him "Father, help us" He might continue on until we shout in desperation "I GIVE, I GIVE".

Don't wait, pray for guidance, safety, help, protection, His love, His grace, His forgiveness, and anything else you might think of. Pray for those around you, pray for those you do not know, pray for those who hurt you and those you feel are headed in the wrong direction no matter what you personally feel about them. Pray, be a prayer warrior and intervene for those who might not think to ask for help.

Prayer

Does there seem to be an extraordinary number of, for lack of a better word, bad things going on? We are having tornado's destroying towns, drought, earth quakes, fires, war, individual troubles? Is it just me or does this seem to be more problems than normal?
I see more and more people coming to Christ, but the turmoil the world is going through seems to be more and more.

Prayer and Praise
Psalm 86: 11-13
Teach me your way, LORD,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your love toward me;
you have delivered me from the depths,
from the realm of the dead.

AIDS

About 20 odd years ago, I believe that God told me something. I have waited and waited for it to come about.
What I believe He said was "The control for AIDS is the cure for cancer". I also believe he told me that a scientist looking for a cure for something, has the answer, but does not realize it.
Let's pray he finds it soon.

Irish Luck

Just received this - seems very appropriate for today.

Irish Luck

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.< br>
'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'

'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.

'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.

'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the noblema n? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

Sing like nobody's listening.

Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

It's National Friendship Week Send this to everyone you consider A FRIEND.

Pass this on, and brighten some one's day.

AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH:

May there always be work for your hands to do;

May your purse always hold a coin or two;

May the sun always shine on your windowpane;

May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;

May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

and may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

In a Brick of time

I received this in my e-mail the other day and it reminded me of a number of times when God was trying to talk to me and I did not hear.

THE BRICK

A young and successful
executive was traveling down a neighborhood street ,
going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.. He was
watching for kids darting out from between parked
cars and slowed down when he thought he saw
something.


As his car passed , no children appeared.
Inste ad , a brick smashed into the Jag's side door.

He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to
the spot where the brick had been thrown.


The angry
driver then jumped out of the
car , grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up
against a parked car shouting ,

'What was that all about and who are you? Just what
the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that ;
brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why
did you do it?' The young boy was apologetic.
'Please , mister...please , I'm sorry but I didn't
know what else to do , ' He pleaded. 'I threw the
brick because no one else would stop....' With tears
dripping down his face and off his chin , the youth
pointed to a spot just around a parked car.. 'It's my
brother , 'he said 'He rolled off the curb and fell
out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.'


Now sobbing , the boy
asked the stunned executive , 'Would you please help
me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and
he's too heavy for me.'


Moved beyond words ,
the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling
lump in his throat... He hurriedly lifted the
handicapped boy back into the wheelchair , then took
out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh
scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything
was going to be okay. 'Thank you and may God bless
you , ' the grateful child told the stranger. Too
shook up for words , the man simply watched the boy!
push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk
toward their home..

It was a long , slow
walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very
noticeable , but the driver never bothered to repair
the dented side door. He kept the dent there to
remind him of this message: 'Don't go through life
so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to
get your attention!' God whispers in our souls and
speaks to our hearts Sometimes when we don't have
time to listen , He has to throw a brick at us. It's
our choice to listen or
not.


Thought for the Day:



If God had a refrigerator , your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet , your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning.

Face it , friend - He is crazy about you!

My Testimony - Nancy Holman

My testimony is centered on a penny.
A penny is a special symbol of God's great love and provision for me throughout all the years of my life.

I was born an only child in a small rural community in Iowa. I was raised in a Christian family and church was an important part of my life. After high school I attended the University of Iowa for a year. Away from home and security, I questioned everything in my life. I transferred to Immanuel Hospital School of Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska. There I became involved in Campus Crusade and one thought kept bothering me. I could not name a specific date when I had accepted Christ as my Savior. Jesus had always been a part of my life. I had been baptized as an infant but at that time I felt the need to be baptized as an adult as a public commitment that Christ was indeed my personal Savior.

I graduated from nurses training as an R.N. and married a young man who was attending Bible College. I watched as God changed him from one who stuttered and flunked out of the University of Nebraska into a gifted Bible scholar and a great preacher with the gift of administration. We had three beautiful daughters together.

Then fourteen years into my marriage, my world shattered! My husband began having an affair and two difficult years later, I found myself divorced with three little girls. I felt like a pair of old shoes worn, used, and then discarded for a different pair.

Due to nursing layoffs in Omaha at the time, I could not get a nursing job and I worked for minimum wage in a daycare. I got food stamps to feed my daughters but I was getting notices that my electricity was about to be shut off because I could not pay the bill which would mean no heat during a cold Nebraska winter.

I went for a walk late one night and I cried out to God telling Him that I just could not go on. I had made such a mess of my life and I needed Him to take control of my life. My Heavenly Father is so good! There on the sidewalk in front of me was a penny. God assured me that I did not need to worry because He loved me so much and He would take care of me and provide for my family. He was just waiting for me to ask and so I sat back and watched as God provided. During the next several weeks I received $20, $50, $100 – over $2000 in all – in the mail from Christian people who responded to the Lord’s leading when He put it on their hearts to send me money. I didn’t need to ask for even a penny! God also provided me a good paying nursing job, a house to live in, and a wonderful church family to support me as He healed my brokenness.

My first husband died within a year of the divorce from a brain abscess. As I stood by his hospital bed and watched the color fade from his face after the ventilator was turned off, tears fell down my face. I was freed from all my hurt, anger, and fears. I knew then my husband was not coming back and God had other plans for my life.

As I look back on that period in my life, I am reminded of the “Footprints” poem. When the days of my life were the darkest, there was only one set of footprints in the sand. God had picked me up and carried me through.

For almost two years I prayed that God would bring a special man into my life to be my husband and a father for my daughters. I asked Him to do this before I turned forty and in God’s perfect time, just weeks before I turned forty, He send Bob. That was in 1988.

God has been so good to me and so faithful in providing all my needs. My life verse is
Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.”
My hope for all eternity is in my Heavenly Father who sent me a penny from Heaven when my world was shattered and my life was broken!

Poem of Caring

When a feller hasn’t got a cent
And is feelin’ kind of blue,
And the clouds hang thick and dark
And won’t let the sunshine thro’,
It’s a great thing, oh my brethren,
For a feller just to lay
His hand upon your shoulder
In a friendly sort o’ way.

It makes a man feel queerish,
It makes the teardrops start,
And you kind ‘o feel a flutter,
In the region of your heart.
You can’t look up and meet his eye,
You don’t know what to say,
When a hand is on your shoulder
In a friendly sort o’ way.

Oh this world’s a curious compound
With its honey and its gall;
Its cares and bitter crosses,
But a good world after all.
And a good God must have made it,
Least wise that is what I say,
When a hand is on your shoulder
In a friendly sort o’ way.

Author Unknown

“For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30)

Just a thought

What constitutes a wasted life?

A  life without God.

He is waiting for your call.

Your Faith has Healed You

Matthew 9:21

She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

     “Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.”  (Matthew 9:22)

We are told that Jesus heals all the time and I think we all know it, but do we believe it?

It was the other week when I began to have a horrible pain in my hip. It would wake me up throughout the night and made it so it was extremely difficult to walk because the pain went from my hip to the large tendon or muscle in the groan area. I tried to find the name of it and it might be the “Pectineus” .

So the pain went from hip to what might be the Pectineus and then down my thigh to my knee. (sciatic nerve)

This pain went for a couple of days before I began to consider going to the doctor. However, because of how I was walking, I mentioned it to a friend of mine at work. She said we should pray. That afternoon, the pain was all but gone. The next day it was gone, however, I could still feel it. Then when a couple of days went by I noticed the pain getting worse again and I asked God why it was hurting again.

“Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. ³⁰ But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

 ³¹ Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”      (Matthew 14:29b-31)

I felt Jesus tell me to have faith.

To just have faith. I believed Him and the pain left...completely.

      “Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.”     (Matthew 9:22)

Matthew 15:28

      Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.   

Mark 5:34

      He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Mark 10:52

      “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.     

Luke 8:48

      Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

     

Luke 18:42

      Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”    

Acts 3:16

      By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.

     

Matthew 8:13

      Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

Luke 8:50

      Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”

Matthew 8:8

The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Praise God-

On being salty

“In many cultures, it is considered unlucky to spill salt, due to very old superstitions. Fortunately, many cultures also have a solution to the problem, which usually involves throwing a pinch of salt over your shoulder or making a similar offering of salt. The superstitions surrounding salt may seem confusing to modern humans because salt seems so ubiquitous, but knowing that it was once incredibly valuable can change this perspective.

The most basic reason for considering it unlucky to spill salt has to do with its cost. For thousands of years, salt was an extremely rare commodity. It was difficult to extract, and as a result salt was very expensive. Many major trading routes were set up to carry salt, people were paid in salt, and salt was sometimes worth more than its weight in gold. Therefore, spilling salt was considered wasteful, since salt was a precious resource.”

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-it-bad-luck-to-spill-salt.htm

The other day in church I was listening to a sermon on being the salt of the earth. He talked about how we Christians bring flavor to the world and while I listened the Lord added to this meaningful message.

Salt:

There are a variety of different types of salt, table salt, iodized salt, kosher, sea, and rock. Each of these has many uses in our lives. It has reportedly more than 14,000 uses with cooking only making up about 4 percent of all salt manufactured each year! According to www.asianonlinerecipes,com we can trace salt back to BC when in was mined in Salzburg, Austria. At one time salt was believed to be a deterrent for Satan which was why people would sprinkle salt along the thresholds and in the corners of new homes. Salt can be used to soften water, mixed with vinegar to a thick paste it can clean your silver, mixed with hot water, salt can rid you drains of bad odors. You can clean up spills such as oil and egg by covering the spill with salt. It removes tea and coffee stains, sterilizes sponges, kills weeds, and deters ants, as well as my mother would tell me to use it, as a gargle for sore throats. But when we think of salt we think of taste first, and then maybe as a preservative for meats among other foods.

Salt has long been a valuable resource in our lives, in fact according to http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-03/985293756.Me.r.html the human body “contains approximately 0.15 percent by weight chlorine and 0.15 percent by weight sodium.” which is the makeup of table salt.

Salt is mentioned numerous times in the bible. In Genesis 19:25-27 Lot’s wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt. To this day, stand a pillar of salt that resembles a woman in the area believed to be where she turned to look back on her life in that city. As offerings in Leviticus 2:13, Ezekiel 43:24, and Mark 9:49. In 2 Kings 2:21 God ‘healed’ the water. “Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’”

Matthew 5:13 says: “you are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”

(When salt lost its saltiness, it was thrown into the streets to help create a more solid ground to walk on.)

We are the salt of the earth, we bring flavor to the world. Not in taste necessarily, but in character and essence. We give the world personality. But we also do something else,

 “³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.” Matthew 24:34.

We preserve the earth.

Have you ever noticed that a town without people – goes to dust? A house which has been abandoned becomes dangerous to enter, while that same house lived in will last more than 100 years!

A garden dies, grass goes to weeds, cities die, and people who feel absolutely no love die a painful degenerating death.

 Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden to care for it. When they were banished because of the sin they committed, the garden died.

We give flavor to the earth and we must never lose that essence, we must not lose that flavor by rejecting God or we will die.

We preserve the earth by caring for our surroundings, keeping it clean, beautifying our neighborhoods, caring for what needs to be cared for. When we stop preserving our land, it will die a painful deteriorating death. And that is exactly what we are doing. We are killing our world by thinking “someone else will pick up the trash.” “Someone else will care for the animals.” “I didn’t vandalize that park, why should I have to fix it back up.” “Someone else…someone else…”

We ARE the salt of the earth, and we need to never lose its value.

We must celebrate the love of God with all, those we love and those we don’t like. We must care for our earth by being willing to bend down and pick up a pop can that someone else didn’t care about.

We must never lose, because it is then when this generation will pass away.

Jesus is the way

Have you ever gone to the mall and wondered where a certain store was so you go to one of those marques that has a map of the mall? One of the first things you do is find the store you want to go to. Then you find where you are at. On ever marque there is a spot that says "YOU ARE HERE" Once you know where you are, you can make your way to the store you want to go to, however, you do need to follow the route. You also need to be sure to not let yourself get distracted or you may spend all your money at another store.

 The same is true when we set our eyes on Heaven. The first thing we do is to look to where we want to go. We want to go to Heaven, we want to live out eternity with our Lord, Savior, Friend, Father, Brother...Jesus. Once we have determined our ultimate goal, Heaven, we need to see where we are. We need to know exactly "WHERE I AM" We need to acknowledge our sins and our need for forgiveness. We need to make a conscience decision to turn from our sinful ways and repent. To repent literally means to stop, turn around, and go in the other direction. Once we acknowledge our sinful life, the lies we tell, the secrets we hide, the masks we wear, the idols we keep, we can then repent and make the conscience decision to not go back. We can then stop, turn around, and head in the right direction that will take us to life eternity with our Lord. We will then follow the path by following Jesus.
Jesus tells us that we are to follow Him because He is the only way.

"Jesus told him [Thomas], "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me."  (John 14:6)

He also tells us that the path is narrow.

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." (Matthew 7:13)

We must follow the narrow path, if we allow ourselves the wider path, we are allowing ourselves to be distracted from our ultimate goal. And when we are distracted, it is easy to lose our way the same as so many already have.

"YOU ARE HERE"
Where will you go from HERE?