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“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and the door 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
As in all I do, I give God the Glory!
While talking to a friend of mine one day, she kept telling me of her desire to be closer with the Lord. I sat quietly listening to every word. My heart sank and she repeated over and over again concerning the path (road) she had chosen in her life. She kept saying " I just want to get on the right road ", and as so many people do she felt as if she needed to totally dismiss the road she had traveled. She wanted to erase every memory up until that moment. We all do it. We want to dismiss the memories. I continued to listen and I know the very moment my heart opened and these inspired words hit me. I said to my friend: Everything we have been through , every road we have traveled has led us to this very second in time. “In Christ, there is no possible way for you to be on the wrong road home, you are just on “The Long Road Home.”
The Lord turned my thoughts to Paul. Paul persecuted Christians. Paul was there when Steven was stoned. Paul had no compassion for the followers of Christ. However, one day on the road to Damascus the Lord not only touched Paul’s eyes to blind him, but The Lord touched his heart, and saved him. Then I heard this question?
“Was Paul on the wrong road that day?” Clearly the answer was no.
Paul was right where the Lord wanted him to be.
I am not excusing sin by any means. I only pray that we will learn as we travel our roads. We need to look at the forks in our roads as journeys. Some will be short cuts; some will be more easily traveled and some will be difficult. Which road you choose is not the big question. Who you choose to travel with is. Choose wisely my friends, because choosing Christ will make your road well traveled.
"The Long Road Home"
I imagined I was walking on a road one day when up ahead of me was a fork in that road. It all looked very familiar to me and then I realized I had been on that very same road looking ahead at the very same fork many times during my life.
I reminded myself as I stood there, how I had always been warned to choose which road I traveled carefully. One would be the right road, and one would be the wrong road. The choice of course would be mine and mine alone. No one would be able to choose for me. I was always left with the impression that one road would be smooth, while the other would be more difficult, full of potholes, and mountains to climb. As I stood there I reflected back to the roads I had traveled thus far, and the place to where it had led me.
I have asked and it has been given to me, I have sought,
and I have found.
I have knocked and the door has been opened to me,
Now I know where my roads lead.
You notice it doesn’t say seek and then ask,
Oh Father what should I do?
I have realized the importance of walking by grace.
When walking with Christ, both roads lead to the same place.
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5/10/2025
I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. As you make your requests, plead for God's mercy upon them, and give thanks. 1 Timothy 2:1
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