What Did Jesus Do?
Jesus said, “Follow me, boys and girls!”
“I am THE way…No one comes to the
Father except through me.”
John
14:6
Waaaay back there (1966) Walt Disney (Don’t you miss old Walt, God
bless him!) made a movie about the Boys Scouts, “Follow Me, Boys!” Pretty
sappy and syrupy for sure, but if you’re married to someone who thinks Kurt
Russell is good looking, rent it for her. Anyway…Scouting has three aims: character development, citizenship training,
and personal fitness. In other words, Scouting
seeks to point boys, and young men and women, on the right path to grow up to
be, well, good, decent folks. One of the
methods of Scouting is to provide all its youth members with a good leader to
follow along the path.
Another method of Scouting is the outdoor program, you know, camping
and hiking and that kind of stuff. Early
on, Scouts are introduced to using a compass to find their way (If you don’t
know what a compass is, think of it as a prehistoric GPS).
One thing essential for any compass to do anyone any good is that it
point true, which is North in case you didn’t know. If you are lost in the woods, and try and
find your way using a compass that points anywhere but north, all you will end up doing is getting more lost.
What does this have to do with Jesus?
Well, he told us that he is
our compass. Jesus said, “Follow me, boys and girls, and I’ll get you
where you really need to go. Follow
anyone or anything else, and you’re lost kids.” One of the things that really gets me hot is
when religious pluralists, too many of whom pretend to be Christians, spout
nonsense about many ways to God.
Religious pluralists essentially tell us that it doesn’t matter where
the compass points, we can pretty much wander in any direction we choose, and
we will still end up finding God.
Uh-huh. And a compass that
randomly points, oh, Southeast, will work just fine to get us out of a
wilderness.
The truth is, we are all hopelessly lost, doomed to wander about and
perish, PERISH, in the wilderness, if someone doesn’t show us the way out of
our predicament. The Good News is, Jesus
has shown us THE way, and it’s him.
Follow Jesus, and no other, and you and I will surely end up in the one
place we all need to be, with the Father who loves us so much he that gave us
his Son to be our compass.
S.D.G.
Jim
Marion, NC
PS 37:4
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