Signs along The Way

I have been looking for signs along The Way this week.  As I journey through my day I am looking for anything that might point me toward the Father.   Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me".  So Jesus...He is the way and The Way.  I look all day for signs of Jesus...The Way

I look it up in the Webster's and am convinced once again that this book of words and their meanings is a holy book.  It is not much of a word really...just three letters.  And right there in the dictionary is the salvation story.

Way is "a state of affairs...how someone does something, their usual habits, actions and qualities" and God he leaves us to our own state of affairs until we recognize our need for his way, for him.  Way is "an opening for passage" and when we recognize our need we look for a saving passage...Jesus.  Way is "movement or progress along a course" and God he posts signs of Himself all along the journey to guide and direct.

Have I been living and forgotten that I am saved? 

I sit in the simulcast and realize how much of my life I live under the law.  But the law...it doesn't save.  Grace is for saving.  Have I forgotten grace?  So many times I hear the story...tell the story of Jesus.

Just yesterday with the four year olds I tell the story of creation...and sin...and Jesus making a way.  And the little one with the side bun and chubby cheeks she says, "you have to squish Jesus down".  As she says it she holds here hands out like she is cupping Jesus right there in her palms.  I have to ask because there has to be more to a squished down Jesus.

"Why do we have to do that?"

"So he can fit in your heart!"

Lessons from a store cashier, a bible teacher, and a four year old.  Each holding up their sign reminding me to lived as if I am saved.  Maybe I got so busy on the journey...that I forgot.  And so these things I remember...

You don't need more Jesus...you already have all of Him!

Living the law is a way that leads to death...grace is the way of  life!

When we enter into The Way, we don't shrink Jesus to fit our hearts...he expands our hearts to fit Him!

Don't Forget It!

I read the scripture five times.  Only six short verses but the assignment is to read it five times and focus on a different aspect each time.  And so I begin with these words,

"Moses told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover and they did-in the Wilderness of Sinai at evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.  The People of Israel did it all just as God had commanded Moses...

God spoke to Moses: "Tell the People of Israel.  If one or another of you is ritually unclean because of a corpse, or you happen to be off on a long trip, you may still celebrate God's Passover.  But celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at evening.  Eat the lamb together with unraised bread and bitter herbs.  Don't leave any of it until morning.  Don't break any of its bones.  Follow all the procedures."--Numbers 9: 4-5, 9-12

 

 

It had been a year since the Israelites had been delivered from slavery.  One year since the people had crossed on dry ground.  Only 12 months had passed.  I wonder...could you really forget? 

 

Forget frogs and gnats...darkness and blood?

Forget death taking all first born...but not yours?

Forget the parting of a sea...towers of water on both sides?

Forget dry ground under your feet where water had been since the beginning of time?

Forget that as soon as you move across...the last person safe...that water falls engulfing the enemy?

 

If you had seen it with your own eyes, experienced it for yourself, could you really forget?

 

This forgetting must be the case with us or there would be no need for the Passover.  No need to be reminded of the things God had done.  This morning I have a Passover experience of sorts.  God reminding me of the things I know.  Helping me to focus on the very aspects that have become a part of who I am instead of all the things I must accomplish...instead of the failures that stick out.

 

Each time I read a new word pops right off the page. 

 

...way, commanded, follow, leave, celebrate...

 

Do these words mean anything?  Are they reminders of that which I have forgotten.  I look at the words...roll them around in my mind.  What do I know about these words based upon His word.  These words could be road signs like the ones my son in learning about in drivers educations.  Spiritual signs that lead us on the journey.  I see them along the journey like black words on a bright yellow diamond.

 

I think I have forgotten...needed a reminder...a passover. 

 

Take some time to think about these words.  Look up their definition.  Do they remind you of a particular scripture or something you have learned.  These are words that slow me down...remind me of who I am...whose I am.