October 24th

Lost In Passion

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

One of the highlight events for me every year is our church's Halloween alternative outreach. At one of them in particular, I was blown away by the turnout. Thousands of people came for an alternative to what the world offers.

I saw a guy there as a daddy with his kids and it made me think of something. That's just like a little example of what we're to be providing everyday-an alternative.

This is what our verse is about today. It is telling us the right choice to make, whether to become a temple of God or to unite ourselves to the world. When we choose to truly live out what it means to be God's temple, we show the world an alternative. Our very life declares that there's a better way-a way that leads to everlasting life, out of the pit that we're stuck in and head us towards home.

It's like what so many people have in their vehicles, that GPS navigator, and you've dialed in your destination and on the road you go. All of a sudden, you make a wrong turn. You didn't mean to, you just made a wrong turn and all of a sudden that voice from the navigator starts speaking to you saying, Please return to the highlighted route.

Or you just have no clue where you are. You just don't know where you are and you're lost. And here's what you do.

OnStar. I love that it's called OnStar, like the wise men. We can probably convince ourselves that we know where to go and what to do, but instead we're going to submit now and follow that star. It's going to lead us to a Savior.

This is the Lord today, saying, Please return to the highlighted route. Come home. Uturns are okay. Turn around. Come back.

And you can stubbornly keep going your way and that voice keeps saying, Please return to the highlighted route. Please return to the highlighted route.

I think that after a while the voice would want to say, Hey, stupid, you're lost. Stop the car. Turn around. But here's God pursuing us, ever so patiently, wanting us back, wanting us to come home.

Will you receive His invitation today?

Prayer Father God,

Thank You that You can show me the way, because I know that I am very lost! I need Your help to get back to where I'm supposed to be-holding Your hand on Your path of life. Please change my heart, be my Lord, and lead me from this day forward!

Amen