Forks in the Road

Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, FL

Day 117
Enlarge the borders of your existence. Expand the sphere of your influence. Are there more possibilities than you have considered? Have you seen your world from the birdseye view? How many directions can you go? Which direction is best? Is there a path you haven't seen or thought about?

I know every path. I see every possibility. I see every ending -- dead-ends and eternal ones.

Will fear keep you anchored to familiar paths? Will you follow a worldly route, planned and calculated by human reasoning? Will you be drawn to take a risk to forge a path that couuld fulfill your selfish ambitions? Will you strike out on a random road for adventure, guided by "luck"? Or will you hear my voice behind you and be led in the Everlasting Way?

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God. -- Philippians 1:9-11

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. -- Colossians 2:6-8

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." -- Isaiah 30:21