Today is…

the perfect day to stop at the crossroads.

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.’ But, you reply, ‘No, that’s not the road that we want!’”  Jeremiah 6:16 NLT

From the time we are small, we are confronted with choices we must make.

Most are relatively unimportant, but we must train ourselves to recognize when we are at the crossroads of a decision that can have an effect not only on our life here on earth, but also on our fate when our time here is done.

The right way to go, of course, is the way of God – the way of righteousness, peace, love, and joy. Many of us have made the wrong choices at some point in our lives only to discover much later that we have spent a tremendous amount of time and expense – as well as an enormous amount of energy – moving in the wrong direction, following a path that clearly is not one God has marked out for us.

In an age of “new” and “improved” and “better,” it is sometimes difficult to understand that some things don’t change.

For instance, “Jesus Christ (is) the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8 KJV).

We must always remember this. As much as the superficial things in the world change: fashion, furniture, cars, hairstyles, food preferences and on and on – no matter what transpires in politics or world events, the Lord can be counted on to be the same, and the path that God wants us to take will always be the right one.

We will never have to worry about God’s path going out of style or somehow not fitting. No matter what changes take place in the world around us, God wants us to always be aware of the path He wants us to take.

There are those who think that public displays of faith are a way of forcing God, and God’s way, upon them. The truth is that God sets all of us squarely in the middle of the crossroads and allows us to make our choices.

He does not force Himself on any of us.

He simply makes it clear that there is an eternal price to pay for following the wrong path, and there is an eternal reward to be received for following the right one.

God’s path is the one – the only one – that leads to rest for our souls and eternal rewards.

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Taken from “TODAY IS….A Gift From God”, (C) 2013 Tony Casson