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Oct. 21st, 2007 01:17 pm145. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
-Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (film, 1999)
Too often I have seen this in my years of watching over man. It is often many believe knowing the path of God will be enough when the time comes to go on as mortals do. Knowing the path of God is but the beginning of what we must do. It is not in knowing his way that we are saved but in walking it.
Those we read of in the bible did not simply know the path but walked upon it. Saints too walked the path given to them. Not all paths are for good. Some, as with Judas, have a divine purpose far beyond what one might expect God to require. It is the divine path that is the plan and not righteousness. False belief in godly benefit is indeed the quickest path to hell.
God gives us each a purpose and that is what we must do. He wishes for heroes but they require villains. Redemption can be given in the most unlikely places when God’s way is heeded. Judas was forgiven for Jesus’ death. He was saved by the very act of saving others through the death of God’s son. Many wish to forget this simple truth. They believe him to be condemned but it is not so. How I ask, can one believe in an all forgiving God if they can not also believe those who carry out his will are forgiven?
This is the difference between seeing the path and walking it. To walk it requires more than piety and attending church. It takes faith in God to not lead you astray no matter what comes to pass in your lifetime. I do know it is hard for mortals to put faith in things they can not see. There in lies the problem. For if you can not see God and his works you will never walk his path for you must see God before you can know where he will lead.
-Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (film, 1999)
Too often I have seen this in my years of watching over man. It is often many believe knowing the path of God will be enough when the time comes to go on as mortals do. Knowing the path of God is but the beginning of what we must do. It is not in knowing his way that we are saved but in walking it.
Those we read of in the bible did not simply know the path but walked upon it. Saints too walked the path given to them. Not all paths are for good. Some, as with Judas, have a divine purpose far beyond what one might expect God to require. It is the divine path that is the plan and not righteousness. False belief in godly benefit is indeed the quickest path to hell.
God gives us each a purpose and that is what we must do. He wishes for heroes but they require villains. Redemption can be given in the most unlikely places when God’s way is heeded. Judas was forgiven for Jesus’ death. He was saved by the very act of saving others through the death of God’s son. Many wish to forget this simple truth. They believe him to be condemned but it is not so. How I ask, can one believe in an all forgiving God if they can not also believe those who carry out his will are forgiven?
This is the difference between seeing the path and walking it. To walk it requires more than piety and attending church. It takes faith in God to not lead you astray no matter what comes to pass in your lifetime. I do know it is hard for mortals to put faith in things they can not see. There in lies the problem. For if you can not see God and his works you will never walk his path for you must see God before you can know where he will lead.