Brethren, If walking with the Lord, following in his footsteps, seems to have become too hard for us and we are considering falling away;
let us first consider what the alternative is.

Instead of having a life filled to overflowing with God's love;
we could have a life filled with bitterness, resentment and hate.

Instead of having the abounding joy born of the hope of Glory with a vision of a life everlasting living in the eternal Kingdom of Heaven;
we could have a life filled with depression and sadness with our only hope being the grave and at the end of time the fires of hell.

Instead of having the peace that God only can give;
we could have a life filled with worry and distress in addition to anguish and anxiety.

Brethren, just look at all of the spiritual conditions we would have if we weren't walking hand in hand with the Lord.

Brethren, I don't know about you, but I for one have choosen to walk in the pathway of God's light thereby avoiding all those earthly pathways of spiritual darkness.
Let us then continue to walk with God!

©01/27/2001 Jim Welch

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