In Your Path

I never really knew how hard three kids was going to be. About the time that I think I have it under control, it all falls apart again.  I'm exhausted. Yet in my exhaustion, I look around and see so many people who have a heart and passion for foreign missions and I think to myself, "Why don't I have it?"  or "Why can't I do that?" I know comparison is not healthy, but I see the passion and it bothers me that I don't have some sort of compassion, much less passion for these sorts of things.  I would like to, but it's not there.  I often ask, "what's wrong with me?"

Then in one of the sweet, tender moments when I had a brief moment of silence in my house, these words were whispered to me, "In your path."  Minister to the people that are in your path.  Because I am hard of hearing most days, my Proverbs 31 email came through that morning and it was on the Good Samaritan. I believe the point was that we were supposed to show grace, but this jumped out at me.  

'A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.  A priest happened to be going down the same road.....So, too, A Levite, when he came to the place.....but a Samaritan, as he traveled, came to the same place..."  Luke 10:30-33


Three men, on a road with an opportunity to help, yet only one took the opportunity.  What jumped out at me, was they were on a road, the man was in their path. Right now, I don't have to look far and wide to find opportunities to minister. My problem is that I often times walk down the path and don't see or I choose to walk on the other side of the road.

As if I wasn't convicted enough, the other morning devotional was on finding five people to do good to this week, people that were in your path.

So, who is in your path?

I took about two steps before I ran into the first person on my path:

Then the pitter patter of little feet brought three more people into my path:

Right now, my path is in my home.