Beware of shortcuts!

Posted by Timothy

May 16, 2009

"Don’t look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don’t fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life – to God! – is vigorous and required total attention. (Matthew 7:13-14 MSG)

How true this statement is, that the marketplace has tons of "easygoing formulas for a successful life" that it can be distracting. It distracts people who may not be Believers from exploring the Truth; but it can also distract Believers into following these alternatives and tugging away from focusing on God’s prescriptions.

I have often looked around, asking, Why haven’t I "made it"? What am I missing from being "successful" and achieving my goals?

The answers I found were in the Bible itself. If I would just listen and partner and allow myself to be transformed, I could experience those things.

The problem: I was distracted by the "easygoing formulas for a successful life" that are made available everywhere. And I realized that, at least for me, in order to put them into practice, I had to actually write them down, put it into my own words, and make them real.

So that’s what I am trying to do. To come up with my own personal alternative, to distill for myself God’s blueprint for navigatin this life and experiencing all the richness he’s promised for following Him.

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