Watch and Pray, Stand and Look….I am at the crossroads

During the month of September I focused on the discipline of prayer and in turn I learned a lot about being at the crossroads of life. At the beginning of the month I though I would learn the usual “facts” about prayer – i.e. its important, its how we talk to God, we can only work for the Lord when we are praying to Him…but I found this month I learned a lot about praying and waiting, praying and watching, and praying and standing. 

The message God sent me over and over was that my life is at a crossroads and every morning when I wake up there are two roads I can take – the path of despair or the path of righteousness.

The last verse my father read before his passing was Jeremiah 6:16

“This is what the Lord says:
“Stop at the crossroads and look around.
    Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it.
Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.
    But you reply, ‘No, that’s not the road we want!’

Proverbs 8 has a similar parallel to this verse. It talks about how wisdom takes her stand at the crossroads, and she cries aloud to the people to seek her and to follow after her diligently. In this particular passage wisdom is personified as Jesus Christ –as both were described as being with God at the beginning of time. From this a beautiful image came to my mind – every morning when I am at the crossroads I am not alone – Christ has taken His stand, and is calling out to me, asking me to follow Him…the question is do I choose to listen? Do I look around and ask for the old, godly way? Or do I just trundle along – “praying as I go”, making decisions in my own flesh and anxiousness?

This month I was challenged to pray and be still. Over and over I felt like God was saying to me, do nothing but pray – and I will do the rest!

What I wanted to end with was a reminder to all of you beautiful ladies – every morning when we wake up, we are at the crossroads of life – it is up to us what we choose to do! I am choosing to stop and look around, I am choosing to meet Jesus – I pray you are encouraged to do the same.

Love you!