BBD 01.24.22 The Right Path (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1834^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

24 January 2022

The
Right Path

God said this to Joshua just prior to the
children of Israel entering the promised land:

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according
to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from
it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that
is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will
have good success. – Joshua 1:7-8 NKJV.

The Message in part puts Joshua 1:7-8 as: Don’t get off track, either left or right, so as to make sure you get to
where you’re going. And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be
out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice
everything written in it. Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll
succeed.

When I was about 13 years old my Dad had to go work
for the day. If I remember right, he was still working at the Clinton-Shermon Air
Force Base near us doing some maintenance work. Our land was already prepared
for planting cotton but since the wind was really blowing the dirt was blowing.
My Dad wanted me to use a little Ford tractor that we had with a spring tooth plow
and streak sections of about 80 acres to keep the dirt from blowing so much.
Simple enough for me to do and it took several hours. I was almost finished
when I saw a coyote and I started chasing it with the tractor. That was when I
ran into a bunch of old discarded barbed wire and got the tractor and the plow
all tangled up in it. It took a long time to cut the wire off of everything and
I’m sure even the coyote was laughing at me!

It is entirely too easy to wander off the right
path of life and become all tangled up in things far from what God wants. It probably
won’t be a coyote that we begin to chase, but it may be a career choice that is
good, but not the best that God has for us. We also may wander off the right
path of life because of the attractions of sinful things – you know what they
are. There are so many little things that can grab our attention and lead us
astray.

It took me hours that day to be able to cut out
of the barbed wire and finish up with the plowing. Once we have gotten off the
right path in life it may take us years to turn back to the way that God has
for us. Sadly, some may never make it back to that path God had originally
planned for their lives. It is all too easy to become all tangled up in things
far from the will of God.

God’s instructions to Joshua are still His
instructions to us today. If we want success in life, we must include time in
the Word of God. We need to read it, meditate
upon it, and memorize it. As Jesus told that old devil when He was being
tempted in the wilderness: “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).”

Copyright © 1998 - 2022. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan.
May they all look to the Lord for help…. Please pray about the situation in
Ukraine with the Russian troop build up on their border.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Alan Medders; Georgia Bronnert; Caleb
Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his
wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Jennifer Burge; Kinsey W; Addison; JoJo, Bailey and
Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy and
Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke;
Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins;
Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Sarah Anderson; Beverly J; Larayne
S. and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1834^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

24 January 2022

The
Right Path

God said this to Joshua just prior to the
children of Israel entering the promised land:

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according
to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from
it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that
is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will
have good success. – Joshua 1:7-8 NKJV.

The Message in part puts Joshua 1:7-8 as: Don’t get off track, either left or right, so as to make sure you get to
where you’re going. And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be
out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice
everything written in it. Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll
succeed.

When I was about 13 years old my Dad had to go work
for the day. If I remember right, he was still working at the Clinton-Shermon Air
Force Base near us doing some maintenance work. Our land was already prepared
for planting cotton but since the wind was really blowing the dirt was blowing.
My Dad wanted me to use a little Ford tractor that we had with a spring tooth plow
and streak sections of about 80 acres to keep the dirt from blowing so much.
Simple enough for me to do and it took several hours. I was almost finished
when I saw a coyote and I started chasing it with the tractor. That was when I
ran into a bunch of old discarded barbed wire and got the tractor and the plow
all tangled up in it. It took a long time to cut the wire off of everything and
I’m sure even the coyote was laughing at me!

It is entirely too easy to wander off the right
path of life and become all tangled up in things far from what God wants. It probably
won’t be a coyote that we begin to chase, but it may be a career choice that is
good, but not the best that God has for us. We also may wander off the right
path of life because of the attractions of sinful things – you know what they
are. There are so many little things that can grab our attention and lead us
astray.

It took me hours that day to be able to cut out
of the barbed wire and finish up with the plowing. Once we have gotten off the
right path in life it may take us years to turn back to the way that God has
for us. Sadly, some may never make it back to that path God had originally
planned for their lives. It is all too easy to become all tangled up in things
far from the will of God.

God’s instructions to Joshua are still His
instructions to us today. If we want success in life, we must include time in
the Word of God. We need to read it, meditate
upon it, and memorize it. As Jesus told that old devil when He was being
tempted in the wilderness: “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).”

Copyright © 1998 - 2022. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan.
May they all look to the Lord for help…. Please pray about the situation in
Ukraine with the Russian troop build up on their border.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Alan Medders; Georgia Bronnert; Caleb
Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his
wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Jennifer Burge; Kinsey W; Addison; JoJo, Bailey and
Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy and
Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke;
Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins;
Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Sarah Anderson; Beverly J; Larayne
S. and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to [email protected] and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to [email protected] and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to [email protected] and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected]