Some people figure that the Word of God is some type of fun-sucking tool that God has imposed upon us, but nothing can be farther from the truth. Anyone who thinks this way has absolutely no understanding of Scripture; they’ve been taught wrong or have themselves misunderstood everything that they have read or heard and have lost their way.
When we gain a proper understanding of God’s Word, we find
out, not just whose we are, but who we are and all that entitles us to. We get
to know God and the more we know Him the richer our lives become.
God’s Word is a guidebook to prosperity in every area of our
lives. God’s Word teaches us that His way is not a burden or a life of undue hardship
but is the roadmap to a wonderful fulfilling life.
Did you lose your way?
“Show me the path where I should go, O Lord; point out the right road for me to walk.” – Psalm 25:4 (TLB)
At school, there was a period called Religious Knowledge.
Each denomination was assigned a different classroom…actually, the two major
denominations, Catholics and Anglicans had a classroom each and then the rest
were piled together into another classroom. So, Methodists, Moravians,
Pentecostals etc Muslims and Hindus too were squeezed into one classroom once every
week, and every new person who came to speak to us would admonish us about the don’ts
of life. Each week we were given an all expenses paid guilt trip as speaker
after speaker would let us know what awful sin-filled teenagers we were and what
horrible sinful adults we were destined to be. It’s a wonder none of us ended
up committed to a mental asylum, at least not as far as I know.
This did not show us the way to God but lead us down a
crooked, convoluted path to spiritual destruction causing us to lose our way. Thinking
back, the speakers who came to teach us religious knowledge, some of them
religious leaders, were not properly schooled in their vocation. They had no
concept of the spiritual. They too were lost.
In order for us to find our way, we need to be able to
understand the revealed truth of God’s Word in terms that we can truly grasp. But
how can we unsheathe the sword of the Spirit? (see Ephesians 6:17)
Jeremiah said, “I know, O Lord, that the way of humans
is not in their control, that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.”
(10:23 NRSVUE)
Clearly, we humans, as much as we want to believe that we
are in control, are incapable of properly planning our own course. We cannot
direct our own steps. The Bible is filled with instructions on the way we
should go, and how we should live. However, reading the Bible is not enough, we
need that spirit of wisdom and understanding and that spirit of knowledge
together with the guidance of the Holy Spirit to study Scripture.
Spirit is the Person who causes the truth of the Scriptures
to emerge by wielding the sharper than any double-edged sword Word of God to
penetrate our hearts going in and coming out (see Hebrews 4:12). Without the
Holy Spirit’s leading we remain lost and misguided, thinking that we know but
haven’t a clue that we really don’t have a clue.
We must walk the path with Spirit, day in and day out, if we
are to maintain a sense of direction. We cannot afford to lose our spiritual
GPS connection to Spirit, otherwise we can lose our way.
Beloved, as you continue walking on the road to Pentecost, “Trust
in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your
own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make
straight your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV)
Amen †
Shelley Johnson “On the Road to Pentecost: Lost our Way” ©
2025, May 13, 2025
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