I found the last message from Billy Graham: “If you went for a walk in the woods, but then decided to wander off the path, and found yourself surrounded by a thicket of thorns and poison ivy, who would you blame? Would you blame the person who built the path? No, of course not. Instead you’d blame yourself if you were honest, because you alone were responsible for wandering from the path.
In a far deeper way, this is what happens when we decide to leave God out of our lives. For a time, it may seem like wandering away from Him doesn’t make any difference; it may even seem easier and freer. But eventually it catches up with us—just as wandering off that path and into the thicket caught up with you.” —Billy Graham”
It is very much like the pastor in my church this morning telling us that after his salvation, he took the wrong path again, headed back to drugs, but had an awakening experience and realized that God is there for us waiting and hoping we come back. We have free will so the choice is ours and I believe Graham’s last message was simply that it’s easy for us to wander but we can always turn back to him and receive forgiveness.
conservativesister wrote:
“I found the last message from Billy Graham: “If you went for a walk in the woods, but then decided to wander off the path, and found yourself surrounded by a thicket of thorns and poison ivy, who would you blame? Would you blame the person who built the path? No, of course not. Instead you’d blame yourself if you were honest, because you alone were responsible for wandering from the path.
In a far deeper way, this is what happens when we decide to leave God out of our lives. For a time, it may seem like wandering away from Him doesn’t make any difference; it may even seem easier and freer. But eventually it catches up with us—just as wandering off that path and into the thicket caught up with you.” —Billy Graham”
It is very much like the pastor in my church this morning telling us that after his salvation, he took the wrong path again, headed back to drugs, but had an awakening experience and realized that God is there for us waiting and hoping we come back. We have free will so the choice is ours and I believe Graham’s last message was simply that it’s easy for us to wander but we can always turn back to him and receive forgiveness.”
Parable of the Prodigal Son also illustrates this.
And that’s how I read the last message from Rev. Graham.
That is a beautiful message.
A wonderful reminder of the grace we are allowed to receive.
It is a choice to enable these things to occur by moving away from God just as wandering off a path leads to thicket and poison ivy. We each have the choice to be close to God or become slowly part of the world we cry about. I think he meant choose wisely.