Journey through the Wilderness

I often walk my dog, Jules over on the high school field where I let her off the leash so she can run and burn off energy. I can usually trust her to stay in close proximity to me so I can get her when it's time to leave. I have been walking Jules at the high school for the last couple of years and it's become a very familiar place to her. She instinctively runs to the same groundhog hole hoping to find one or along the treeline hunting for animals. Today, in her excitement she kept getting farther and farther away from me. Confidence to run off on her own is not typical behavior  for her because she was a rescue dog who has always been a little skittish. It wasn't long before I completely lost sight of her and didn't know where she had gone. I anxiously called for her and whistled repeatedly waiting for her to respond. Minutes went by and no sight of Jules. I wandered the field longer. No Jules. I finally figured she may have gone home without me because she has becom

I have been watching a stink bug that got inside my bird feeder go round and round the inside of it trapped inside...so it thinks. There are several openings for it to escape but it just stays at the top of the feeder circling around it. It may just end up dying in there! It caused me to consider how we do the same thing in our lives. We get stuck going round and round in circles not accomplishing anything, not having vi ctory and certainly not living in the freedom that Jesus Christ came to this earth to give us! The freedom is right there in front of us but we don’t see it because we are not letting the Holy Spirit guide us to it. We get stuck in wrong patterns of thinking. We live by our own preconceived ideas or false teaching we’ve heard. But we have to surrender everything we know and understood to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and be transformed and renewed by the word of God with the Holy Spirit’s instruction. Isn’t that what the apostle Paul did when he went into t