Guideposts

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 289

August 2, 2016

There is little magazine called Guideposts. It has short true stories and miracles of happenings that changed people’s lives and guide them to a better way.

Road signs are guideposts and buildings and landscape areas can be used as guideposts.

When someone is giving you directions sometimes they will give you landmarks to look for …….(past the wal-mart, etc). But have you ever listened to someone tell you how to get somewhere, thought you had it, and then found you forgot to really take note of the guideposts they mentioned.  Hmmm was it the blue or white house.  Did I turn right or left at the Country Store. 

You soon find yourself in the wrong place.

The word of God challenges us to not forget the guideposts that have been set before us in our walk with the Lord God Almighty.

Proverbs 22:28 (KJV)
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

The Bible is full of rich wisdom and stories we can learn from.  The Lord God Almighty moved on men of old to record what we now use as our guidebook.  They recorded the good and the bad.  This was not just for interesting reading but to show us not only what to do but what not to do.

But we must listen and learn from it.  We must let the word get deep within us and guide us in the right path.

When we choose to not take note that the religious leaders of Jesus day missed the truth that the Messiah was in their mist:  When we ignore the fact that the Israelites wandered in the wilderness because they believed they could not take the land:  When we ignore the fact God Blessed Solomon with wisdom because he desired that above all else: When we do not remember that God sent His Son in a way that did not make sense, we are missing the landmarks set before us.

I am not talking about religious traditions or rules: they are what Jesus came to set us free from. But when we have a relationship with Jesus Christ of Nazareth we still have to walk in the everyday now and now with some wisdom and guidance.

Don’t ignore what our forefathers showed us. Not only the Bible but history and biographies give us much guidance. We can learn what does not work and what does.

We can learn from people even in our own family history.

A few weeks ago I talked about that great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews who are cheering us on.  Maybe we also have many witnesses that are saying “Follow Jesus, listen to that still small voice and do not close your eyes to truth as I did.”

2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV)
²² Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

 1 Peter 2:21 (KJV)
²¹ For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

3 John 1:11 (KJV)
¹¹ Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Let us walk in the way Jesus walked and learn from those who have gone before us.

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Father, in Jesus name I ask you to help me to never think I have a better way but to always follow the example of Jesus here on earth and the amazing Christians who have gone before us.  Let the truth that Love never fails and that we are ambassadors for you fill me up completely. Search my heart and purify my mind and motives.  Let me listen and learn and may I leave guideposts for those coming after me.  Amen

Love Jesus with all that is within you!

Love, MeMaw