April 4, 2024 
The Christian Journey
(Mary Winslow, “Life in Jesus”) LISTEN to audio! Download audio
Life is a journey, often a short one, and always uncertain.
But there is another journey. The believer is traveling through a waste howling wilderness, to another and a glorious region, where ineffable delight and happiness await us.
The road is narrow, the entrance strait–so strait that thousands miss it and perish in the wilderness. But true believers, under the teaching and convoy of the Holy Spirit, find it and walk in it.
The King, in His infinite love and compassion, has made a hedge about them–separating and defending them from the many beasts of prey that lurk around them; and although they hear their howlings and behold their threatenings, they are safe from their power.
But their strongest foe is within themselves–a heart deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. From this there is no escape but by constant watchfulness, and earnest cries to their best Friend and Guide for protection.
Were it not for this faithful Guide, how often, discouraged by reason of the way, would they turn back! But He . . .
watches over them by night and by day,
strengthens them when weak,
upholds them when falling,
encourages them when cast down,
defends them when attacked,
provides for them when in need,
leads them by living streams, and
causes them there to lie down in pleasant pastures, and on sunny banks.
And as they advance they obtain brighter views of the good land they are nearing. And they long to see the King in His beauty, and the land that is yet very far off, and to meet those that have already arrived on that happy shore.
iChristian 
Dear Steve, Thank you for your testimony. Your words were as a song in the night, while we wait for the morning with a sparkle of hope that all will be well.
Our walk with God is a journey to be sure, and one that isn’t always cake and flowers. You’re right–the road is narrow and the entrance is shown clearly to us if we’ll choose to see it in Him. Our hearts are deceitful, and the enemy seeks to destroy us along the way. How grateful I am that His Holy Spirit never leaves us!
Thank you, I needed this today. I also learned a new vocabulary word – ineffable. So, thanks for helping me get a bigger brain – lol.