My Way

Having good retentive memory is an asset everyone admire so much not just the academia. Let's not talk about the intuitive wisdom people regard as 'Common Sense' which I can't tell how common it is,  yet a lot of people lack it.
With this great asset, we quickly recall past events and probably learn lesson from them or model our circumstances to suite same.
Does that mean because we experienced a circumstances last in a particular way,  it will still repeat itself exactly the same way??
 Well, you may answer for yourself now or later.

 Life experiences are OK but they tend to deceive us most times or make us rely on them every now and then, failing to adventure.
When this goes on and on and on,  even our subconscious mind seem to adapt to a particular method, become stereotyped and rigid or brassbound.
The result is, we view things Only from one perspective and that way becomes Our Way, My Way.

Even regimented Soldiers are flexible to some extend, then I wonder what type of Soldier/military experience Naaman must have undergone.
Being a commander, he has led wars and won battles probably by his own way but never forgot his incurable/undefeatable internal war.
He was desperate for its cure/defeat but maybe felt or expected it won his way too.

vs9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at Elisha’s door.

vs10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven tibmes, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.

vs11 But Naaman was angry and went away
 and said, Behold, I thought he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and heal the leper.

vs12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

vs13 And his servants came near and said to him, My father, if the prophet had bid you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean? 2Kngs 5: 9-13

Just like Naaman, we've lost a lot because Our Way causes us go with pride,  expect God come to us instead of us going to Him. Our Way cause us make our choice rather than God choosing for us, suggest for God or even tell Him 'Don't worry,  I'll do it my Way' even in desperation. Ah!
Such mind is often conditioned a certain way with expectations from God even after our prayers.
And anything outside the way we expects(Our Way), we simply tell ourselves 'it's not it and can never be it'.

Our Way can never give us anything better than God's Way. His Way is the very Best thus, let's ask for a humble heart to seek and accept His way and not our.

...read more. When God changes His Way for silence...

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The True Story

 Past events of life that happened either few hours or decades and century ago are so recountable, in fact most cases recorded or engraved as sculptures for future purposes.
The nature of the record depending on the magnitude and significance of the event for the future.
 But one questionable things about such encoded significant events is it's accuracy of record. The details of the event may not be clear to one witness thus, some level of addendum may be necessary for spicing to any good author.

 Sometimes a story is told by a witness and recounted by many to suite them or probably told and some facts left out.

 A child once asked the dad, "Why did Jesus had to die on the Cross? " The man went on to explain how sin ruined the plan of God and how Jesus came in to redeem mankind by dying on the cross but...
 That story wasn't complete you know cos that child had a serious argument with his friends when he quickly hurried out to brief them about Jesus Christ. The friend argued, but 'Jesus isn't dead'( but died and rose again - an aspect of the story his father left him blind).
Of course he(the child)  went back home angry with his father who now sat him down and narrated the Whole(True) story.
 Similar thing happened when the Ethiopian Eunuch returned from the place of worship with doubt of the scriptures proclaimed. Thanks to God for His sovereignty knowing the degree of the effect of such doubt and immediately sent Philip to expatiate the word for him and get him saved.

 The Salvation of humanity through The Death/Crucifixion, The Burial, The Resurrection, The Ascension  and Return of Christ still remain the ONLY True Story ever told years far back and today is been passed across the universe. Don't expect any other with 100% accuracy, cos there can't be any other of its kind, so when we tell others of the True Story, let's narrate it as exact, precise and accurate as it is without any addendum.

 "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll".  Rev. 22:18-19

 Tell the Only True Story as exact, precise,  accurate and veracious as it is.
 Jesus Christ is still the ONLY Way. God bless you.

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