Make Straight Paths.

We grow weary…yet we must not faint.

Heb_12:3 …lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Heb 12:12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 

Heb 12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 

We must look to Jesus and when we look to Jesus find His strength for our spiritual existence. Satan would trap us in so many ways trying to keep us from ever looking to our Savior- as truly being our Savior. Satan wants us to stare at our lives and dwell on the places our feet have taken us- down paths of unrighteousness, through fields of sin, over hills of despair. Satan doesn't want us to make straight paths for our feet- the path that leads to Christ, the path that we follow as the world reveals millions of other paths tempting us towards the crooked ways.

We must make straight paths for our feet… when we make straight paths for our feet any lameness we incurred as we were on the crooked paths can be healed! Our feet which can barely move will gain new strength in Christ! We don't have to be stuck in the thick muddy paths Satan entices us with. Every single path Satan puts in our way will look amazing, fun, fulfilling, satisfying… his paths do NOT present as haunted horror trails meant to terrify you. The paths that Satan dresses up are more like the candy laden lanes that lead unsuspecting children into witch houses. You might not be tempted by a candy lane, but put your besetting sin, your most tempting of all temptations in the place of that candy and you will find yourself wanting almost desperately to head down that path- it's HOW Satan works. And barring entrapping you with pleasure inducing paths, Satan will construct paths that will call to our despairing, depressive, self-depreciating, self-sabotaging sides. Do not think all people are enticed by the feel good- some are enticed by the self-pity, self-centered sides that give them an opportunity to bemoan their existence. They'll enter the path of pain and pity secretly (sometimes even to themselves a secret) just so they can be caught up in the cares of this life so much so they can't even imagine the straight path that leads to salvation in Christ. 

Tricks and traps surround us on every side making their snaking, sneaking ways off the path of righteousness, but truth will shine out as a brilliant beacon of hope guiding us through it all. We must make a straight path towards that Light so we can be healed from all that would cause us to go spiritually immobile, sinking us into whatever evil Satan can use to entrap us.

We must…

Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 

Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled

More on this tomorrow by the grace, the mercy, the will of our Lord, Jesus Christ, now and forever!