The path of God is the right mindset, attitude, choices, and actions we take that put us in line with God, and on the road to heaven. Moving towards Him, and not away from Him.
It’s also the path that brings us closer to ourselves. It brings us home to who we really always were meant to be.
This path to God is sometimes misunderstood by people. Some don’t understand that the path towards God causes division and arguments. It can cause us to push away from people who don’t yet know and believe in God.
I feel like I came to God’s path by accident sometimes. I came to the realization that everything I had tried in the past had failed. So, why not try the only thing I hadn’t -God. Doing so took me on an incredible journey I hadn’t thought possible. It took me on a four-year journey of learning who I really was.
As people we often cultivate and nurture destructive thoughts and become our own enemy. Thoughts of loneliness, fear, anxiety, worry, and immortality are more often the companions of our minds than we want to admit.
We have to embrace a new identity, characterized by trusting, obeying, loving, and imitating our heavenly Father. This leads to living a deep sense of belonging, security, and purpose, even while we struggle with sin. It involves a humble trust combined with righteous action, to do what’s right, that few are willing to give in to.
It involves knowing that we are loved, accepted, and realizing we have the standing of a legitimate child, not a slave, but adopted into God‘s family through faith in Jesus.
It’s having a deep confidence that God sees, cares for, and sustains you, even when you don’t have all the answers.
It’s striving to do God’s will, by reflecting His character and doing what is right and loving others. Even if we fall short.
It’s allowing the Holy Spirit to work within you, to transform your nature to wanting to please God by replacing the old sinful ways.
It’s following Jesus’s example of selfless love and sacrifice and leaving a mark on the world.
It’s living with hope, not fear, knowing your sins are forgiven and they you have an external inheritance and advocate in Jesus.
There are a few examples of how I put this into practice in your life.
- Receive Jesus: Welcome Him into your life and believe in His name.
- Pray: Talk to God as a Father and friend. Spill your innermost secrets to Him. He already knows them, but you need to get everything out in the open.
- Love others: Demonstrate life to other like-minded believers and act righteously.
- Follow Jesus’s example: Walk in life and self-sacrifice.
- Embrace humility: Develop a child-like trust, not immaturity but reliance on God.
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” In John 14:6.
There is much more to it than that. There were many more things I needed to learn about the way, and I’ve learned and still keep learning. These lessons come in bits and pieces through the course of my life. It’s a learning process and will continue until the end of my life.
It’s a deep spiritual quest for divine connection, seen across faith, and is a transformative process that involves prayer, and scripture in action.
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