10/03/18 THE RIGHT DIRECTION IS NOT ALWAYS ENOUGH
If you get off course, turning in the right direction is not enough. You will miss your destination unless you get back on course.
Daddy was on a slow boat that was carried off course by the current. Though the captain turned north to return home, he approached the beach about 25 miles from his home port. He came to an inlet, but it was not the right inlet. The captain had drifted down the beach, but he did not know where he was. Not knowing the inlet put them in jeopardy, since they had arrived after dark and attempting to navigate a strange inlet or channel could be tragic.
HERE IS MY POINT. It is not enough to turn in the right direction after we have drifted or sailed deliberately off course. We must make sure that we are headed for the right port and we must get our course correctly aligned. There are hidden reefs, shifting sand bars, unknown currents, and just because it looks like the right way does not mean that it is the right way.
It takes energy, determination, courage, sacrifice, humility to realign with God, after abandoning our relationship and responsibilities. But the destiny of your soul demands your total commitment and your faithfulness to the course that God has set.
Just in case you wonder, JESUS IS THE WAY, He is the course, He is the destination.
