The Longest Road

I have been thinking a lot about the roads that we travel in our lives. We all travel them, there may be other people on the road near you, but so many times we miss the most important road, the one that few of us travel. The verse in Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." I know that is talking about our path to the kingdom of God, but I also have to wonder if it is talking about the path to understanding and implementing the truth of who God is. I will explain my thoughts.

There are so many of us in the world today that are full of head knowledge, they can quote scriptures, they can tell us specific portions of the bible that we are walking portions too, they go to church on Sunday, but the truth of who God is, is just head knowledge, it is not in their hearts. I believe God said it perfectly clear in Psalm 119:11 "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." He said hide the words in your heart, not your head, not in your mind, but in your heart.

The road to your heart is the longest and hardest road. I don't know why that is, but I believe people can walk around and have no true heart knowledge of who Jesus Christ is, but they think they do. The thought and the know is different. I don't know what causes the know, but to truly know Him they would not just be Sunday Christians, focused totally on self, worried about everything thing, other than what Jesus Christ wants. This is why marriages are failing, this is why families are struggling, this is why kids are walking away from the church, it isn't about the Bible, it isn't about the pastor's it is about the heart of Christianity, it is about our hearts, so full of junk that we can't allow the word of God to penetrate into our inner most being, our hearts.

I don't know what the answer is, but I believe God has to really open the eyes of the blind, the blind to who He is, the blindness to the issues of the heart, it is going to talk God and that is the only way that people will see His truth, that we must hide the words in our heart, we must live the truth not through our minds, but through our hearts.

Lord I come to you and I pray that the knowledge that I have will not just be head knowledge, but heart knowledge, the the longest road from my head to my heart will be open to Your truths, that it will be open to You and closed to the world garbage. Lord help me to allow You and know You more and more each moment of the day. I don't want to be of this world, only living in it with my heart for You. I love you and I pray this in Your precious Holy Name Jesus.

I don't know if you prayed that prayer and meant it, but Jesus wants you, He desires to have you not just living in your head, but allowing Him to live in your heart. It isn't enough to live on Sunday for God, but we must live every moment for Him, may the knowledge be hidden in your hearts and not your head.