The Straight and Narrow

Old Knik River Bridge Near Palmer, Alaska

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Have you noticed how hard it is to walk a straight line? We tend to walk in circles. We veer one way or the other. We run into each other when we're walking side-by-side.

We need help to walk the straight line like that offered by the yellow divider on this abandoned bridge in Alaska.

"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives.  It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.  God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work"  2 Timothy 3:16-17 New Living Translation

What we wrestle with most in this quote is the phrase, "All Scripture"; not "a portion of", not "in general all Scripture," but "all Scripture"; period. Paul doesn't allow for wandering off of the yellow line.

Yet we hear the serpent's voice in our ears, "did God really say..." and we begin the process of rationalization. All of us do it. It's in our DNA. And it doesn't take long and we have wandered off God's path.

It's easy to lose hope, isn't it? That is, until we remember that there is the One who has walked the yellow line for us; every bit of it, who sets us free. There is One who not only believed that every word of Scripture was God breathed he lived it perfectly. It is the same One who died on a cross, was buried in the grave and rose in victory over death.

So don't lose heart. Yes in our fumbling, bumbling way we stumble along God's path for our lives laid out for us in the God breathed Scriptures but we do so under the canopy of his grace.

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