Roadblocks

While I was in Florida, there was a verse that was in a lot of ways, my theme verse for the trip.

“Can two walk together except they be agreed?” -Amos 3:3

This simple Bible verse poses a very good question to us all. You see in order to walk together, we must be “agreed”. For example, you wouldn’t walk with someone who you were hostile towards, or someone who you (typically) have differences of opinion with. It just doesn’t happen.

This raises up an interesting point. Our journey with God should be an example of this verse. We should seek daily to be in His will for our lives. We should desire to walk in agreement with God. Psychologists say that walking helps clear your mind and calm you down. This is God’s desire for us as well, because we are His children. He wants us to be of a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7), as well as to be at rest in Him (Ps. 62:5).

So, since it is still January, and the whole “New Years Resolution” idea is still going, people haven’t given up just yet, why don’t we examine our walks?

Is there anything in your life that is blocking your “agreement” with God? This can come in the form of social media, sports, hobbies, family, friends, you name it and it can become a roadblock!

Is there anything that is preventing you from giving your all to God? If it (or they) are not leading you to God, and walking with you in agreement while you journey closer to God’s heart, then I suggest you should prayerfully purge that roadblock.

“So if your eye--even your good eye--causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away.” –Matthew 5:29

My second point in this blog post, is to point to men.

Yep, guys.

See, I know how it is, I’ve been there. You get in a relationship with a guy, and he’s godly, seeking the Lord’s will, handsome, smart, funny….etc., and suddenly God takes a back burner.

This doesn’t happen intentionally, and it isn’t purposeful. However you begin to take your eyes off the Cross, and look to him. He becomes a roadblock. The roadblock of all roadblocks.

See, it’s a slow fade, just like anything else.

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” –Psalm 1:1-2

Notice how the man is walking, then he standing, then he’s sitting. At first he’s standing tall, but then he allows the Enemy (and not intentionally either) to cripple him gradually. It may not be even noticeable at the time, the changes may have been so insignificant he didn’t notice, but with time he reaped the consequences of not staying on the “straight and narrow”.

Yes, God gave us a healthy desire for love, for acceptance. However, that desire is for one man, our husband, and should not be awakened until the proper time.

Anyhow, I digress….

Any man who wants to walk with you, should demonstrate his own hunger for God. He should not encourage you to compromise your purity or anything you believe in. If so, prayerfully dump him. No boy is worth the precious gift of your heart if he isn’t willing to wait on God’s timing! A man will protect you and cherish you, even if that means self control for him in the moment.

However, it should be noted, that our walks can be restored.

Both with God, and our guy.

But first with God, then with our guy.

Know Him, make Him known. Find joy in His presence. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength! Then, and only then will He release you into the protection of a warrior poet.

Our roadblocks are only roadblocks if we allow them to be(Titus 2:11-12).