Hello everyone who could be bothered reading this! As someone who tries to see a little bit of God in everything around me, I thought I'd start documenting my observations.....perhaps I'll turn these into a series of communion messages one day :D I hope you enjoy, I will add to these as often as I feel inspired!
Today's post is titled Where are you going?
Before I quit my job at big w, I was at my checkout when a lady came through one day wearing a black t shirt that said "Im going nowhere". What a sad statement!!! I was so close to pulling this lady aside and asking if she really felt like that, because why else would someone make a statement like that on their t shirt for the world to see right??? I mean, I know, its just a t shirt, but its a message she's not just projecting to the world but to herself also. I learnt at university about things called "self fulfilling prophecies"....no their not a myth, its a psychological fact! As part of a psychology unit I did, we seriously were taught that as you think, so shall you act because our behaviours are manifested first in our thoughts. I wondered after seeing this lady's t shirt where her thought patterns really were! Why did she wear that t shirt? Did someone GIVE her the shirt or did she buy it for herself, and if someone else bought it for her do they really think that too???
The truth is, whether we like it or not we're all going somewhere. Our decisions in our lives are carving out a path for us and the results can be positive or negative. Even if you feel like you're moving backwards you're still moving. Even if you feel like your stuck in a meaningless existence time still ticks on and whether you know it or not you're headed into one of two results - heaven or hell. Jesus says "I am the way, the truth and the life. Noone comes to the Father except through me" John 14:6. So I guess my question becomes are you following Jesus' way? The bible says that the gate is narrow and few find it (Matthew 7:13)...will you be one of the few that keeps the faith? How do we know that we're walking with Jesus you may ask? in 1 John 2:3 we find the answers....
"Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments."
So.....where are you going today?
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