Leaving Beyond – Grounded In Scripture

Written by: April J. Buchanan

“No man can be happy until he forsakes the paths of sin and follows the Lord in humility and faith.” ~ Thomas Watson

Oh wicked man, you cling to this dust. In your path is but a cloud that throws those in your path into disarray. Man chokes on your wisdom and dies from dearth of knowledge. You wretched guide of the poor, desperate man who seeks not the wisdom, power, or grace of God.

Death will be scorn to the man who awakes to behold such glory that he cast off to follow such a miserable guide, to his desperate soul that longed for what was temporal and put off what was eternal.

But the man who hears the call of God and abandons his ways—your wisdom as the world’s temptations—he cries out against his own foolish heart and finds grace and mercy in a Savior who bore his wrath and clothes him in a righteousness not his own.

He lives as a pilgrim seeking a better home and warns all on your path to repent and believe on the Lord. You mock him, you blind guide, but while his days be full of persecution, wrestling against his own sinful nature, carrying his cross, and proclaiming the kingdom of God, he will be much rewarded.

And what better than that he may see his Lord face to face?

Meditation

Grace and Peace, y’all
Soli Deo Gloria