Introduction

Point Me In The Right Direction

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” John 14: 5-7

As Christians, we have good intentions. We want to live Holy lives. Lives that are pleasing to God in service of our fellow man. The problem is we find ourselves so often unable to do it. Someone makes us mad. We wind up saying things we don’t mean to say. We go to the wrong places and do the wrong things. Sorry, these devotionals won’t fix these things we all struggle with. It will, however, point you towards the place to get back on the right path to try again.

I’m certain that when we are ineffective, we simply have not begun properly. We haven’t aligned ourselves to God through prayer. We have not actually thought about what we are about to do or where we are going. I’m convinced that we need to start out with the right frame of mind and moving in the right direction.

In the Gospel according to John, Jesus proclaims himself to be the way, the truth and the life. This is his response to the question: How can we know the way? Clearly, Thomas saw the need to be pointed in the right direction. We too seek, through the Bible and prayer to know which way to go.

This collection is a series of short devotions written to help focus your day and cause you to reflect on the nature of God as illuminated by the Bible. Each one takes about a minute to read. If you take a few minutes after that to reflect and pray it will help you start your day moving in the right direction.

Each one of these devotional reflections was written as I started my day asking God for the guidance and power to live meaningfully and purposefully.

My prayer is that God would guide our footsteps and that you will be blessed as you read the devotionals in Moving In The Right Direction.

Deacon Larry Woodard