In Luke 2 Mary and Joseph were leaving Jerusalem and they lost sight of Jesus in the crowd but assumed that He was still with them. As they walked on they discovered that they were walking without Him. Once they discovered this they had to stop where they were and begin to retrack their steps to see where they were separated from Jesus to start all over again.
The interesting part of this message is where they found Him. Sometimes we have to travel back to the very place we found Him in order to start once again. In the book of Proverbs we are taught to keep God’s Word as the apple of our eye and this means in front of everything else in order to insure that we don’t begin to walk on our own. How many people reading this message can relate to this message in Luke 2? How many are walking down a path and assuming as Joseph and Mary that Jesus is with them? For the last thing that any individual should ever want to hear are these words of Jesus from Matthew 7, ” And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
May I challenge you to stop today in your walk to insure that you are not walking on your own and that you are still on track with the Lord leading the Way…
James A. Harrison
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