Journey to The Journey

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If only we could think like God. Imagine if every one of your thoughts was holy, every motive pure, and every idea good. If you could think like that then your thoughts would only result in a perfectly holy life as well. In other words, you wouldn’t sin if you thought like God. If we want to be righteous like Him then we must be willing to change how we think.

Like father, like son. That’s an old saying people use to point out that sons, more often than not, turn out to be like their father. That reality may excite or depress you, but that’s beside the point. The reason that saying is often true is that we all tend to imitate those who take care of us. We pick up both their good and bad qualities as we’re figuring out life for ourselves. In many ways this is true of our relationship with God, only we’re nothing like God when we sin. He’s a father who always does what is right and good. When we do what is wrong, we don’t resemble Him in any way at all.

Knowing the ins and outs of God’s plan of redemption is a beautiful thing. The meaning and significance of that Gospel have been taught and shared around the world for centuries. It’s no wonder— understanding how and why Jesus did the things He did can be incredibly inspiring to think about. However, merely being captivated by the story of Jesus doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll ever be changed by Him. The details of the gospel of Jesus become life changing only when someone appreciates their personal need for what He’s done.

Bad stuff happens. It takes little life experience to understand that something isn’t right with this world. There’s pain, suffering, hurt, injustice, and death - it’s messed up. Nobody likes it but everyone knows the world has a tremendous amount of problems. It had troubles yesterday, there were more today, and unless something drastic happens, it will continue tomorrow too.

Read that verse above very carefully. What comes to mind when you read it? If all you learned from that verse was, "do what your dad says," then you have more digging to do. There’s a lot to think about in that little verse, which is typically the case for a sentence in the book of Proverbs. Ultimately the verse is about gaining wisdom. How does one become wise? The answer