Walk prayerfully and take Jesus with you every day because the path home is slippery!

An All Day Prayer/ Song

Lord I need You every hour to walk and talk with me.

Keep my feet upon Your path guide me in Your mercy.

Don't let me slip and slide and bring anyone else down.

Only through prayer and faith do I find solid ground.

Keeping my eyes, mind, heart, and spirit on You.

Is the only way to stay on the path and to stay true.

You walk with me and talk with me on life's path so wild.

I watch You and listen to You with the heart of a child.

I want only to obey.

I want to stay by Your side all the way.

I seek Your face every day.

I rejoice to see You never go away.

Thank You Lord for daily walking and talking with me.

Shining Your Light on the path so I can see.

Slip Sliding Away

One thing I have learned over the years about the rainy season is to walk carefully! There are some paths here where I live that are very slippery when wet! I fell down a couple of times last year. One of the places I slipped and fell looked very solid, it had grass so I thought grass makes for good traction. Well I found that's not always true. In some places the grass get so soggy that you sink in mud up over your shoes which is as bad as slipping and falling; because in either case you have to go change clothes. Walking the Christian path takes caution, wisdom, and prayer too. Some things seem so small that rather than deal with it I use to say, Oh that wont really matter. or no ones going to notice."  Slip. Or not wanting to make enemies I would over look things I shouldn't. Slip slip (one slip for them one slip for me) Sometimes I would let laziness keep me from doing something I spiritually should. Slip. Oh no not the gray areas! You know the ones where it's a fine line and your mind convinces you that your not sure on this issue what is right. It leaves openings for slipping. Then there are moments that right after they pass I kick my self and say I should have said or done thus and such. Why didn't I ? In some cases I even knew right in the midst of the moment, what I should have said and done but for some reason or other didn't. Slip. Sometimes I am to quick with my spiritual advice and don't think it through. After all what is good for some is not good for every one; because we are all at different stages of spiritual growth. That is why some drink milk and some eat meat. I am learning to think and pray things through more before throwing in my two cents. But When I am hasty it is like the grassy muddy path I sink and get all full of yuck and need to change. And who knows how much the other poor soul got soiled! I am glad God is teaching me and helping me to be more careful. I hate it when I miss up; but I hate it even worse if  I wrong someone else. Running away from doing something God tells me to do or say because I may be embarrassed is like seeing the path I should take and not taking it. When I get off the main path I slip and slide. In this case its usually in my relationship with God concerning usefulness and servant hood. I must be careful because if I allow myself to slip, slide to much I just may slip slide away. And life with out Jesus is no life at all. And I would hate for my spiritual shoes to fill up with sinful mud and then wallow in the mud until I was all filthy again. Who knows if  I would ever make it back to the cleansing fountain (Jesus). My motto walk carefully and take Jesus with you all the time.

Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day. Psalm 25:4-5, Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my footsteps may not slip. Psalm17:5, I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

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