~*+My Journey Before Heaven+*~

So now there is light, a light to guide the way, not just in the big things, but even the little things. When Jesus said that he is the way, the truth and the light, he’s not kidding. The holy spirit left by him to his people guide the path for his sheep with HIM as the sheperd. We are his sheep, and of course the sheperd guides. Here’s the thing about it all: We know, but too many times we do not follow.

We see the light, the truth, that what we are about to embark on is wrong. We see the light on the other side, but walk away from it. Wait, let’s not use we. I walk away from it. The sheperd points onwards towards greener pastures and crystal clear waters. The sheep CHOOSES to chew on cowgrass. That’s me. Sometimes that light is so clear, but it is too hard to let go.

At times like these, I always make a prayer, like the ones I made to him before. ‘ Lord, help me. Force me to let go.’ I see, hear, and understand that there IS greener pastures, a better, more purposeful life. But the body doesn’t move. WHY? Its flesh, that’s why. The brain is flesh. The heart is flesh. Flesh controls flesh, so the decision for the flesh will never change. ‘Let’s stay here. Look! There’s cowgrass ‘ Only the spirit can also move the flesh. the Lord will work within you and he can also change you. Out of the two things that can change you, one will not, the other will. Therefore I pray that the only other thing that can WILL do it, and I allow him to be the authority over my flesh.

The way, the truth, the light, these are visually external things. But when Jesus said these, he did not refer merely to what we can see. So, if we fix Jesus into our knowledge of the way, the truth, the light, then you will see it, but the body does not dwell IN this. The way, the truth, the light needs to be WITHIN. ‘He who remains IN me WILL…’. The reason why Jesus says this is preciely because he is NOT an external worker that saves the outside. He seeks to mend and salvage the INSIDE.

Father in heaven, I yearn not to see the way, the truth and the light. I’ve seen it many times, and all the time I do not follow. I yearn to know and be IN the way, the truth and the light, as the flock of the sheperd, and wish that it may be IN me. Then I may not see it, but I am clear that the path I walk is that which pleases and glorify your name.