Heading out to the bird feeder, I was feeling thankful for the path my great-nephew had made for me through the snow. He had seen my initial footprints around the yard to places I needed to reach, and he followed with a shovel or just his “big ‘ole feet” and made a more accessible way.
In the same way, Jesus creates paths for us to reach Him. In this age of massive technological information, there are really solid Christian teachers who can really help us deepen our knowledge and faith. Of course, there are also charlatans and money-changers who can lead us away from truth.
If you find a teacher who uses the Bible intensively and reads out loud from it and throughout his or her teaching keeps going back to the Scripture and giving cross-references in both the Old and New Testaments, you often find that even if you don’t agree with every word they utter, you can still learn from them.
If your teachers are quoting celebrities and politicians and secular media, there’s a chance that the path you’re heading down is not going in the right direction.
Everywhere I go I hear people talking about what a mess our world is in. Life is expensive and chaotic. You can’t keep up at work, at home, with your kids, with your phone. We have to put our personal information out into cyberspace with no idea of what happens to it out there. It’s easy to think that things are too overwhelming and difficult to manage.
But as I look at Jesus Christ, who made the decision to take on humanity and come dwell among human beings—feeling their pain, their hunger, their distress—He was truly Emmanuel, God with us.
He is still with us. He is still creating paths for us to reach peace and reconciliation with God
Thoughts From the Garden 