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Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil. —Proverbs 4:26-27
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Two types of travelers wander the world. The first, prefers the off-beaten track. Isolated back roads, unpaved tracks, deserted turns, secluded trails. A bucket list of unexplored visages and unknown ventures with potential peril to life and limb.
The second kind of traveler will undertake well-known tourist venues wherever they go. All the well-marketed, well-received, well-reviewed must-see attractions. A bucket list of maxium fun, minimal danger. The meandering off-the-beaten track contains inherent risks which the straight path tourist traps do not incur. Risky fun versus safe fun. For the believer, thrills outside the will of God kills. Stick with the well-lit roads instead.
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Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay in the safe path.
Thumbing through page 1 of the Christian’s Travel Atlas:
Straight spiritual paths lead to straight places. Crooked spiritual paths to crooked spaces.
Straight roads with straight companions find straight endings. Crooked roads with crooked companions arrive at crooked landings.
Sometimes we embark on the wrong footing, falter in our faith, and fall upon false endeavors like the Apostle Paul in his persecution of believers. Still, Jesus will find us no matter how faraway our mission is from His.
Indeed, every journey requires planning. However, our physical preparations mean nothing if we are divinely lost. On the road to Damascus, Paul has worked out every detail of his trip. But his sense of spiritual direction is misguided and misaligned. Paul has no inkling how lost he really is. He relies on anti-Jesus views, an anti-Jesus entourage, and anti-Jesus papers to arrest Christians. Wrong calling, wrong company, wrong campaign. But when Paul meets Jesus, Jesus turns his sight to blindness, and his blindness to sight.
The entire process of our life journey is significant to God. At any given point if our path is crooked, Jesus will come to intercede. Jesus specializes in disrupting our wrong roads. Paul boldly goes to capture believers, only to find himself captured in God’s grace, finally arriving at yes, Straight Street. I once was lost, but now am found in the Real Truth. Paul, previously a blind man, now possesses divine insight and sight to have a change of heart and go change the world.
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Beloved, stay on the straight path that is safe for your soul. Mark it out and make it your ambition. The avenues you traverse are just as vital as where your final destinations are. Your soul will follow your feet. Let your feet run to Jesus.
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Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.
Similarly in a marriage, if we commit to fidelity, we won’t stray to adultery. If we focus our journey on Jesus, we won’t get sidetracked into illicit settings, settling for evil. Distractions draw us from the right route God is mapping out for us.
The question arises: Can adventure be found in straight paths? If we ask Paul, we find an answer in three missionary voyages to Cyprus, Galatia, Asia Minor, Greece, Corinth, Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus, and so much more. Paul’s life changes from charging after lesser pursuits to a lifetime adventure of proclaiming the Gospel.
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Beloved, the best adventures are best for our soul. They sail us to sights beyond the temporal and steer us towards salvation for the eternal ride.
Straight paths lead to adventures where your heart grows closer to Christ, your spirit soars with His Spirit, and your soul finds its greatest satisfaction in His safe places and secure spaces. Run your feet with the Real Truth to adventures mapped out by the greatest Adventurer of all. Christ Himself. Traveler, run your feet to Jesus.
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