Oh, yes, I have been lost before!

I would like to think I will never be lost again; it is not a good feeling. Yet, I know getting lost creeps up on you like a thief in the night. It isn't as if one minute you are within God's presence and the next you're out. It is a gradual, little by little happening, that most times you are not even aware of.

It may begin by not focusing, daily, on God through prayer and His word. It may come about as you don't depend on God for your daily needs, maybe thinking you only need Him in major crisis situations. You begin to think that you are ok on your own, and pretty soon you are not even thinking of God very often. Little by little worldly things seep in. You start to feel comfortable and normal in your egoic mind and things of the world don't seem so wrong anymore.

It usually takes some big event to snap you back to reality. Something goes wrong and you start to search for God's help, and it is then you realize how far away from God you have drifted. The distance may seem immense.

God is not far away, ever. He is right beside you, waiting to take your hand again, to shower you with His love and forgiveness. Our God is merciful beyond knowledge, always remember this as you journey with Him. Praise God for His mercy and forgiveness.

Staying on the path with God does take time and effort; it takes a desire to want to be with God, but He loves you more than anything or anyone you will ever know, so why wouldn't you want to be with Him? There is no better place to be.

Maybe God allows us to get lost every now and then, to realize how much we need Him and how much better our life is when we give Him control. Our purpose becomes very clear and our lives are more productive according to His will for us. Most importantly, the path with God leads to everlasting life.

Luke 11: 24-26
"When an unclean spirit has gone out of a person it wanders through arid waste, searching for a resting place; failing to find one it says, "I will go back to where I came from." It then returns to find the house swept and tidied. Next it goes out and returns with seven other spirits far worse than itself who enter and dwell there. The result is the last state of the person is worse than the first."

Luke 11: 28
"Blest are they who hear the word of God and keep it."