February 25: John 3:19-21

Key Verse: John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

Devotion:
No matter how much we try to tell people about the gospel truths, we will not be able to reach all people; people have grown to love the darkness and the wrongs ways of living. We do have an uphill task of trying to tell people about this amazing light which Christ has brought into the world, not to blame people or show them up, but to give them the option of finding out the truth and following that truth as a choice!

The more we live in the world and live by the rules of the world, the more we move away from God and get stuck in the worldly ways. These ways are often the wrong ways and it seems a lot easier to go with these ways just as the rest of the people around us are doing. Why rock the boat when you can move ahead just like everyone else? Well, if the road everyone is on leads to the wrong destination, we need to come to our senses and get off the common road and head back to the right destination!

Christ warned us the road to the wrong destination would be free and easy to go forward on, but would ultimately lead to spending our lives away from God and certainly not going to live in Heaven with Him for eternity! The road to heaven may not be an open highway, it may not be easy and it may go through many torturous ways, but we can be certain it will lead to us being able to spend our eternity with Christ in heaven.

If we continue to go along this wrong highway for too long, we will lose sight of the road to heaven and get so caught up in the wrong ways we may even convince ourselves these wrong ways are the right ways. They are not! We need to open our eyes and see the world and its ways for what it is, adjust our ways and try to stay walking with Christ along the rough and ready road which will give us eternal life.

Points to Ponder:
Do you like sticking with the crowd?

Are you ready to step out and know you are on the right path?