BBD 06.29.06 The Way Home
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06.29.06
The Way Home
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. - Matthew 7:7-8.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. - 2
Timothy 3:16.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through Me." - John 14:6.
Can you imagine being in a foreign city for the first time and forgetting
how to return to your hotel? What would you do? You might do what an
American soccer fan did in Hanover, Germany. The 25-year-old man from Boston
checked into his hotel prior to the soccer match between Poland and Costa
Rica. However, after the match he was unable to remember the name of the
hotel he had checked into, or the address. What he did was to search for the
hotel for six hours after the soccer match without success. He finally
realized that he was lost and needed help. Around three in the morning, he
stumbled onto a police station and asked for help. A spokesperson for the
police, Holger Jureczko said, "The only thing he could remember was paying
10 euros for a taxi ride to the city center and that he went past a park and
a Mercedes dealer. There are a lot of Mercedes dealers in Hanover but we
were able to find the one in the vicinity of a park." The lost man finally
recognized the hotel after driving around the streets in the area for an
hour just before the morning sun rose. It must have been a long, long night!
What would you do if you were in a similar situation? Being a man, I would
probably do the same thing as in trying to find the hotel without asking for
help. On our recent trip, I was only lost one time and I was able to buy a
map and find my way back without asking for help. But it did seem to be a
source of frustration for my wife!
How could the lost man in Hanover have resolved his situation more quickly?
How can we? He could have asked for help. Pride appears to be the primary
motivation for not asking for help at least from my own experience. Asking
for help is admitting that you cannot do it on your own and that you need
the help, advice, etc. of someone else. It means that if you have to have
help that you are not perfect and that you do not know everything, and
cannot do everything on your own. That is hard for some of us to swallow but
it is still the truth for every person on this earth. None of us knows
everything, and none of us can do everything by ourselves. If we are honest
with ourselves, we will realize that we all need help; assistance, advice
sometimes - and that admitting it can actually make life easier for us.
It is the same in the spiritual realm. We cannot arrive at the correct
spiritual destination without help. Where should we go for spiritual help?
The very first place to go is to God. Ask Him to help you to find your way.
He promises to do that in Matthew 7:7-8. The second place to go for
spiritual help is to the Word of God, which is the Bible because "All
Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." What does
God say through the Bible about finding your way spiritually? Here are a few
of many verses of Scripture about this eternally important subject:
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)."
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23)."
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8)."
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart
one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation (Romans 10:9-10)."
"For 'whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved (Romans 10:13).'"
Jesus is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" and it is only through Him that
you can find your way to your spiritual home. For more information about
finding your way spiritually and being saved eternally, you can access the
"How to be Saved" webpage at the Burning Bush website at this URL:
http://www.theburningbush.net/articles.asp?columnid=2939
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