The Road Map

We the members of the human race are born ignorant and we stay that way until somebody teaches us something. Whether or not someone purposely stops and takes the time to teach us or we observe someone who has learned to do what we are desiring to do, we need to learn one way or the other. Lets say someone decides to start a business. That decision is the big jump. So he opens his business and waits. Do people immediately flock to his door and he becomes a huge success because he made the decision to open a business? I don't think so. He must have a plan or a system to follow from the smallest to the biggest of details. He must have a road map to follow or he will get lost and fail.

Suppose you wanted to go to a certain street address in Santa Barbara. At the present you are in Mankato, Minnesota. If you have never been out west would you just jump in the car and start driving not knowing where Santa Barbara was or how to get there? No again. You need a road map.

Suppose you have made a decision to follow Christ. You begin to read the Bible and see that there is healing and deliverance for those in Him. You have made the decision to place your all on the alter and have dedicated yourself totally to Him. You know you need Jesus desperately and cannot gain the victory without Him. You have dedicated and rededicated dozens of times and prayed and asked for deliverance dozens of times. When it doesn't come and doesn't come you decide you are doing something wrong and rededicate again and place yourself on the alter anew. After years of re dedication and recommitting you finally accept failure and go on and do the best you can.

A road map would have been nice. After all there are those who are walking in victory. We are suppose to mark those and imitate them. Exactly what are they doing day by day? What are they saying and how are they praying everyday, everyday, everyday? Once we see the road map we must decide whether or not we want to go that route to gain the victory or stay where we are so as not to upset our own personal theology. It is my personal opinion that a big part of the church is ready to lay aside personal doctrine and begin to discipline ourselves to follow on to total victory. Would that make us "disciples"?

Tom Geerdes