Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“’No, we don’t,’ Thomas said. ‘We haven’t any idea where You are going, so how can we know the Way?’
Jesus told him, ‘I am the Way—yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of Me.’”
John 14: 5-6 (TLB)“Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.”
II Chronicles 7: 14 (NLT)“And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’”
Matthew 16: 17-18 (ESV)
I wonder how many of us find ourselves a bit confused and anxious in the midst of the rhetoric of the election season in our nation.
Hoping we will embrace once again our nation’s values, foundational beliefs, and heritage aligned with the God who ordained and blessed the founding of America.
Wondering who to vote for, and will it make a difference.
Where will we find an answer. Where will we find peace.
Church attendance has dropped significantly. The percentage of those who claim to be Christians continues to dramatically decline. Why?
You wonder if the church today is the church which Jesus Christ envisioned when He laid the foundation on Peter? Or has the world infiltrated it, and made the church its own, following the “word” of the world, rather than the “Word” of God.
How many of us today find ourselves at the end of relationships, careers, resources, and hope, unable to believe in a path forward.
Feeling all alone. Empty and without direction. Wondering where to turn. Where hope can be found.
Turning instead to the loud voices and noise of the world around us. Hoping we will find the answer there.
Answers, if any, which are at best a stop-gap remedy, yet often moving us further from where we should be. Band-aids which won’t stem the leeching of Godly values from our minds, hearts, lives, and future generations.
But then we hear Christ’s words to Thomas and the other disciples—
“I am the Way—yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of Me.”
And the words of God to us in II Chronicles 7: 14—
“Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.”
The words of the song “Running Home” by Cochren & Co, also makes the point for us, as they share—
“It’s been a long time running down a dead-end road,
Lookin’ for that something that could fill my soul.
Never found what I was searching for.
It’s been a long time running from a messed-up past.
But you can’t go forward when you’re lookin’ back.
But I ain’t looking back anymore.
He called my name, and He stole my shame.
Everything changed when I came Running Home.
Out of the dark, into His arms.
No more running away, I’m Running Home…
And when I see that smile on my Savior’s face,
I won’t be walking, I’ll be Running Home.”
Only one remedy.
Only one answer.
Only one Way to turn.
To…Only one Voice.
All leading to one lasting, eternally life-changing Peace and Hope in Christ.
In one eternally God-ordained and surrendered life.
Only one Way. To our one Eternal Home.
Christ is the Way.
In His Name–Scott
Be blessed as lifted as you listen to “Running Home,” by Cochren & Co.
