WALK IN THE WAY
by Suzanne Benner
**How has the life of Jesus impacted you?
http://thelife.com/study/whoisjesus.html
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a
new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way
in the desert and streams in the wasteland" (Isaiah 43:18-19).
Israel was mired in sin, stuck in a pattern of disobedience and
unfaithfulness to God, yet God did not forget them. Through the prophet Isaiah
He was calling them back, urging them to forget the errors of the past
and begin anew.
"And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that
Way; wicked fools will not go about on it" (Isaiah 35:8).
The opportunity to walk in the Way is not just offered in January, at
the start of a new year, or on Sunday, the start of a new week, but
every day and every moment of every day, God holds out his hands to us and
says, "Here is the Way -- walk in it."
He has provided a way in the wasteland of your life. He has built a
road for the faithful to walk. Sins forgiven, a second chance and future
hope are the gifts God offers us.
When we choose to accept God's forgiveness, we become the redeemed --
those God has ransomed from sin. He paid the price to give us an eternal
hope that can never be taken away.
"... But only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the
LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will
crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and
sighing will flee away" (Isaiah 35:9, 10).
~Thank you, God, for redeeming me. I want to walk in the Way of
Holiness. Show me Your Way, O Lord. Help me to take up my cross and follow
you.
Questions: What new thing do you see God doing?
Hope the devotion will help :) It minster to me. Although I've quit my course but the whole experience is new. God is using the same thing to teach me other things that i have yet to discover. I'm dealing with my own heart. My own strongholds, my own weakness in life. And God have being helping me :) Taking it away one by one and letting me see where the problem is coming from. I believe God is helping me to see the bigger pictures :)
