BBD 10.14.13 The Way Home (Classic)
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10.14.13
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, and he couldn't even remember the address. He
searched 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 immediately 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 help and
advice from someone else. It means that if you have to have help that you are
not perfect, 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, or 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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