Walking with Jesus

To walk away from Jesus is to have never truly mourned over our sin, to have never truly admitted how desperate of a condition we are in, or to have never confessed how far we fall short of God's purity and holiness.  If we feel God has failed us, we have come to Him on our own terms and with our own sinful expectations.  We have believed the lies of Satan.  To walk away from Jesus is to walk away from hope, to walk away from love, to walk away from joy, and to walk away from peace.  To walk away from Jesus is to walk away from abundant life.  To walk away from Jesus is to walk away from the Father and to walk towards destruction.  To walk away from Jesus is, well, crazy, because the alternative is an eternity of God's wrath.  If we find ourselves in such a state, may we remember the story of the forgiving father and the prodigal son, and may we cry out to God for mercy, to withhold from us what we deserve, and to give us eyes to see us as we truly are, in desperate need of His righteousness.

To walk with Jesus is glorious and wonderful, because that's just what He is...there's just something about that name...