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Unfortunately we live in a world that says your path doesn’t matter as long as your intentions are good.
“As long as it feels right”“Follow you heart”
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Unfortunately we live in a world that says your path doesn’t matter as long as your intentions are good.
“As long as it feels right”“Follow you heart”
Review
The next logical question
If our path determines our destination, then how do we
know which path to take?
Proverbs 27:12 (NIV)
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but
the simple keep going and suffer for it.
Two People
Prudent: the wise person – Life IS connected (cause and effect)
Simple: the naïve – Life is just not that hard (deceive themselves)
Thoughts – where I let my mind go
Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a destiny. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attention - Thought – Feeling – Step – Direction
Thought = Path
Thoughts – where I let my mind go
If physically “you are what you eat”, then spiritually and in “real” life, you become what you think – i.e. what I think is who I am
- Where do thoughts come from? - Where do thoughts go?- What to do with thoughts?
Thoughts – where I let my mind go
We break down every thought and proud thing that puts itself up against the wisdom of God. We take hold of every thought and make it obey Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8
One Situation –Two Responses
Situation: DangerDanger•Prudent’s Response: Take appropriate action; do something; take refuge
•Simple’s Response: Keep going; they hear the warning, but don’t change their direction
Not changing direction as soon as you see the warning signs is a problem . We end
up where the path leads.A point comes when bad options are all you
have.
It’s my fault I ended up here.
God does not love me less, God is not mad at me, God isn’t out to get me –
I violated a principle.
When we see a caution sign in our lives, we have to make a
decision.
You are not locked into a path, you can change direction
STOPLOOK
LISTEN
You end up where the path leads, the PATH
determines DESTINATION
Our direction,not our intention, determines our
destination
The farther down the path, the harder to change.
Four experiences you will have if you get serious
about this principle
• ACTION: You have to do something.• SACRIFICE: You have to give something up.• EMBARRASSMENT: You are going to make
some decisions that other will not understand.
• RELIEF: One day you will breathe a sigh of relief that you changed paths.