ENCOURAGING WORDS

by Jimmy Keyton                            

"Kingdom of God"

     What’s the secret to living a godly life in this world of constantly changing values? When I think about this, it reminds me of a friend who grew up on a farm. They plowed the fields with a mule pulling a plow. His father was teaching him how to plow and told him the importance of plowing a straight furrow. The way you do this is by keeping your eyes on an object at the other end of the furrow and walk towards the mark. His father left him to plow the field and when he returned to check on him sometime later, he found the furrows were crooked. The father asked him if he didn’t understand that he had to pick out a mark and plow toward it. The young son told his dad that he did understand that and that he had picked out Bess, the cow, as his mark and he had walked toward her the whole time. The problem was that Bess wandered here and there in the field and the son followed her everywhere she went. The father had to explain the importance of picking out an immovable object as your mark. This will keep your furrows straight. I think that there is a spiritual lesson in this for all of us. If we desire to walk the straight and narrow path in our effort to follow god’s ways then we must keep our eyes on Jesus. He is the solid rock that is the same yesterday, today and forever. Don’t try to follow man made ideas of morality and righteousness nor even the shifting sands of church theology but keep your eyes on Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.



     God loves you so much that He sent His only son, Jesus, to die on a cross to pay the penalty for your sin. Ask Him to forgive you for following the ways of the world and ask Him to fill you with His Spirit so that you will be able to keep your eyes on Him and follow Him to a life of righteousness and peace. He has special plans for your life and as you follow Him, He will reveal His love for you in very special ways.