Our life journey
@innertalks (21160)
Australia
February 25, 2024 8:36pm CST
Some well-meaning pundits have told us to focus on the journey, and not on the destination.
This might sound good, but if we are focussing solely on our journey, we might not see that our destination for our life is the wrong destination.
We need to place our ladder against the wall that God places in front of us, as our spiritual path, and mission, for God.
If we willy-nilly just place our ladder against any wall, of our own desires, we will end up climbing the wrong wall, then, instead.
Real joy, or real accomplishment, comes from our reaching God's goals for our life, and making it into Heaven. They never come from our only completing our own goals.
On the other hand, a crow cannot sing like a magpie, and cannot be taught to do so either.
We need to take what God gave us as our own gifts, and develop them in our life, in accomplishing God's purpose for our life, and not waste our time developing, or trying to develop gifts, that others have, but that we were not given.
God never creates any copycats of other souls, and so we must make the best of our own soul first, as helped by God to live our life through our soul, as best we can for God.
We must connect to our soul, which is our part of God too.
Life is never just about yourself; it is about God in yourself; so live the bigger life, never the small, for yourself life, lived just for the self-aggrandizement of your own self, without acknowledging, and living, your part in the whole, not just your part as your part.
Truth, must be lived in God's way in you, uniquely so.
Truth can never be copied, or imitated, as it is only then just knowledge in our brain, but truth becomes living truth, alive in our heart, when we live from it, as it comes to us, via our soul from God.
Truth is a feeling, not a thought.
Truth lives alive within love, not deadened within a mind.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com
Make sure your ladder is leading you into Heaven, and not anywhere else.
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@just4him (308693)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Feb
We need to walk the narrow path of salvation.
Matthew 7:13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (NKJV)
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@just4him (308693)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Feb
@innertalks I agree. Have a blessed day.
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@innertalks (21160)
• Australia
26 Feb
Thanks.
I was using a ladder here, as an analogy for that narrow path too.
The narrow gate, and the narrow path, lead us into Heaven, but when we try to make our own path, or construct our own ladder, we often end up going the wrong way then too.
We need to accept our place on the narrow path, and climb God's ladder for our life, not our own constructed one. We need to lean on God, not on our own understanding, alone.
@innertalks (21160)
• Australia
26 Feb
Yes, many people on the right ladder, do leave it; some come back to it, but others never do, preferring the more worldly ladder, leading to worldly pleasures, and treasures, instead.
@RebeccasFarm (86976)
• United States
26 Feb
I love that drawing there Steve!!
In my life I have seen things most would not believe.
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@innertalks (21160)
• Australia
26 Feb
Thanks. I think in most lives, some unbelievable things happen.
God seems to throw them into our mix, to spice up our life, and to increase our faith a bit too.
@Shiva49 (26245)
• Singapore
26 Feb
Some realize too late after reaching the summit that they have climbed the wrong mountain.
As for me, I chose to climb a hill that suited me and, sort of resting, on my laurels now.
I do not know whether it was God's choice or mine
It happens also we get kicked around by those who live on their terms and have control over our lives here.
Hopefully, god will reverse the roles later!
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@innertalks (21160)
• Australia
26 Feb
And some like me, just drop their ladder where they can do so, and then make the best of the climb they find themselves making.
It is not always obvious when our ladder has been placed right with God behind the placing too, as you pointed out there too.
We just need to try our best, and to make the best of the rest, I guess too.
@innertalks (21160)
• Australia
27 Feb
@Shiva49 Yes, sometimes when I was halfway up a ladder, I would realise my mistake, and beat a retreat back down again too. There is no point pushing the wrong barrow up the wrong hill either.
Yes, it is usually a good idea to be true to our conscience, and to our gut feeling, or intuitional nudge, about something too.
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@Shiva49 (26245)
• Singapore
27 Feb
@innertalks At times we have limited choices.
We have to go with the flow to survive.
I stood my ground when I had to go against my conscience.
It was thus far and no further for me then.
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