SOUL SNACK S3/12 … Of Pilgrims & Pioneers - A

New Year continues (and I suspect always will be) the place for pilgrims and pioneers.

The New Year presents a season to enter untravelled territory and read unseen signposts. As each New Year arrives the sober examine their previous successes, lament their losses and learn from their failures. Through this self-auditing the pilgrim and the pioneer will travel to fresh countries, meet new people and engage in new activity. This is all good.

Would you pioneer the path this year to:

• be closer to Jesus ~ Jer 30:21
• know God alone and to remove all distractions to this end ~ Ps 46:10 ·
• desire for God's will to prosper and no longer your will ~ Is 53:10, Jn 5:19
• be in a place of total dependence on Jesus, that you may bear permanent fruit for Him ~ Jn 15:16
• know and deliver the words of comfort for the weary and burdened ~ Is 50:4
• be only a speaker of words of grace & mercy, removing all condemnation, criticism and bitterness from your speech ~ Eph 4:29
• know your spiritual enemies (hindrances to growth) and
• have His guard over your mind and your mouth.

Pilgrims and pioneers are always honored as adventurers, enjoy a different adventure with Jesus this year. Who knows some may even be watching and seek to also walk your path?

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. (Is 55:6)

Today's Soul Snippet:

"Beaten paths are for beaten people." David Livingstone