Though we walk the way alone, God is with us

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The most important message I picked up from today’s readings overall is though we walk the way alone, God is with us.

My primary take-away from each of the passages was this:

• Genesis 11,12  – Following God and the path he sets before us usually requires that we walk alone.
• Matthew 6 – Prayer is the cure for anxiety, and worry only adds to your troubles.
• Psalms 6 – In my greatest distress I can call on God and he will rescue me. God is faithful and hides me from my enemies.
• Proverbs 6 – We should apply wisdom, work hard, and be honest in all of our affairs.

One of my favorite lines from the movie, The Way is: “You walk the way for yourself; only yourself.”

There are so many reasons that we do so many of the things that we do. Often times we think we are doing things because we want to do them, only to realize later that we were doing it to please someone important to us. Upon realizing that and deciding to do what’s best for us instead of others we are often confronted with the displeasure of those who benefitted by our self-sacrifice at the expense of our own dreams.

Self-sacrifice is one of the Christian tenets, but God also usually calls us to do things that are within our skill set and range of desires–God did not make me an artist so that he could call me to some work that would ignore the gifts and talents he built into my DNA. St. Augustine wrote about this. Joseph Campbell called it “follow[ing] your bliss.”

If you are not finding fulfillment in following a path that is wide and full of people who “know what’s best for you,” take another route–one less traveled and perhaps never traveled. It may seem like a lonely choice but once you do it you will find that you are not alone, and God is the best traveling companion one could hope for.

That’s what I got out of it. What did you get out of the readings today?

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