Proverbs 14:12 NASB There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

I don’t know a lot about dogs, Mocha is the first dog I’ve ever had, so sometimes her behavior mystifies me. Like how she consistently travels the same paths in the backyard, so much so that you can see the ruts in the grass: from the patio to the shed from the shed to the gate, from the patio to the back fence, etc. When she runs back to the patio she goes to her path, even if it is far out of the way! I don’t know if it is just habit, or if the stamped down grass is more comfortable on her paws, but she is always in a rut!

It really shouldn’t surprise me; she is not the only one of God’s creatures to travel in ruts! I do it all the time. Sometimes it is the rut of the same sins over and over again. Sometimes the rut is my complacency. Sometimes the rut is my fear of change. Maybe for you it is something else entirely.

Satan wants me to believe I can’t break free of the rut; that I’ll never veer off the beaten path; that things won’t ever really change. But Jesus says we can be free of sin: “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36 NASB). Jesus told his disciples they would have a completely different path if they chose to follow him: “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men” (Mark 1:17 NASB).

My ruts may be comfortable, and they may “seem right” to me, but they won’t get me where I really want to be. The only way to accomplish that is to continually give my thoughts over to God and allow Him to transform me, to make me more like Christ!

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 NASB

-Kevi 

 

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