Here It Is, Let’s Follow It Back!

Life can be confusing, and there is always something around that will pull you off track if you let it.  It can be drugs, riches, fame, power or pleasure.  The list is huge.  What are the right choices?  How do you negotiate the world that is presented to us with all its choices and temptations.  Some choices lead to light and some to destruction.

As a firefighter I learned that when you enter a building that is on fire you often encounter conditions that are incredibly dangerous.  Your job is to go into that environment and meet the challenge head on so you can save trapped victims and put the fire out.  Sometimes you don’t have the resources or time left to successfully fight that particular fire.  It’s just too late.  The fire is too large and too hot.  The room has darkened down with black smoke and you can’t see to make your way, and you can’t even see the fire anymore.  It is incredibly easy to get disoriented and lost in even a small structure, let alone a warehouse or apartment building.  What is important at that point is to save yourself and the rest of the crew that is working with you.  The very best way, now that you can’t tell which direction is the way out, is to follow the fire hose back out the building.  It’s a huge mistake to lose track of the line.  If you’ve become disoriented and you find the hose you know that it’s “the way.”  Unfortunately one way leads to destruction the other leads to life.  In the dark, you have to feel a hose coupling and feel the different shape of the female and male ends where they are joined to discover the direction you need to take in the dark.

We have the “hose” of spirituality to follow.  It will lead us.  One direction is the one to self-centered existence and the other is to a God centered and other centered existence.  Jesus taught an ‘other’ centered existence based on God’s commands.  If we follow it, there is life at the end.  He said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.”