Inspiration Thursday

We've all heard the phrase, "Life is a journey".  Most people believe that the journey of life has a destination and most of those people believe that destination is heaven, regardless of the direction that their journey has taken them.  They believe that there are many ways to heaven and virtually all of us will wind up in paradise when we leave this world.  Even those who say that they believe in the Bible, believe that we are all going to the same place.  They believe that only those most vile and evil personalities will spend eternity in that place known as hell.  The Bible tells a different story.
First of all, Jesus himself said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)  What does that mean?  It means that being good is not a free pass into heaven.  It means that being honest is not a free pass into heaven.  "But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are lite filthy rags;" (Isaiah 64:6).  It means that acknowledging our sinful nature, repenting of that sin, asking Christ to forgive us, and accepting Him as our Lord and Savior is the ONLY WAY that we will spend eternity in a heavenly place prepared for us by Christ himself.  There is a path to righteousness, and it begins by inviting Christ into your heart as your Savior.  We are all, "A Soul Going Somewhere."

Skywatch Friday

Sometimes the morning or evening sky is layered with color.  While it only lasts a few moments, I could watch it for hours.  Our lives are layered.  We have layers of friends.  Some are childhood friends, long forgotten.  Some are recent friends that we spend time together.  We have layers of activities.  There is entertainment, hobbies, work, and family.  All of these layers require that we spend time in those relationships in order to bring out the best in ourselves and others.  We can't truly understand why some people do the the things that they do, unless we understand the person better.  When we know something about a person's past, their education, their family, their interests, we can better understand why they may react to a situation differently that most others.  The person that most of us know the least about, yet knows the most about us, is Jesus.  God created us, breathed life into us, and developed a plan for our lives.  Yet most of us have no clue what that plan is, because we spend almost no time getting to know the one who knows us best.  Investing time in God's Word, and spending time in prayer, talking to our Lord is the only way that we will ever have the relationship with Jesus that He intended.  It's never to late to begin.  After all, each of us is a "Soul Going Somewhere".  Have a blessed week-end.


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