All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and THE LORD hath laid on HIM+
the iniquity of us all.
+ + +
GONE ASTRAY. . .
Dreadful words ! Dreadful concept !
Those two words bring a shudder into our soul, a heaviness into our heart.
Whether it be a son or a daughter, a husband or a wife, a sister or a brother, or even a father or a mother… O terrible thought ! … the straying one causes immense grief to every person connected to that person.
A depth of pain awaits us as the valley of suffering becomes our daily walk.
The battle looms before us to bring him or her back into the Right Way of living.
The Prophet Isaiah was slain for declaring this Truth:
ALL of us have gone astray
from following THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
Revelation 1:8 identifies clearly THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
I+ am Alpha and Omega,
the Beginning and the Ending,
saith THE LORD,
which is,
and which was,
and which is to come,
THE ALMIGHTY.
+ + +
Why does every one of us go astray from THE ALMIGHTY?
Why do we even WANT to go astray ?
Well . . . why do sheep have to be herded, guarded, led , and alas, oftentimes RESCUED ? [Animals kept in domesticated flocks normally DO need to herded .]
People have these same tendencies, only OUR tendencies come from our Adamic nature. Perhaps animals, who do not partake of our human, Adamic nature, are in need of guardianship because of the Adamic curse.
We are BORN with a nature which leads us ASTRAY.
Note this: We never have to teach a little child to be bad; he will soon be hitting and grabbing things and screaming to obtain his Will . . . just naturally.
Unless we teach him NOT to hit, NOT to grab things from others, and NOT to scream to obtain his Will, he will continue to go astray until he is corrected by a force stronger that he is !
That is his fallen, Adamic nature manifesting itself.
We ALL have that same nature, from the minute we are born until the minute we die. Our own, Adamic nature is our enemy.
The LORD has a BATTLE to shepherd HIS+ Flock and keep each one from DESTROYING HIMSELF.
Let us Pray:
Dear Heavenly FATHER,
Help me to fight my Adamic nature, the Self-serving nature I was born with, which always fights against THEE.
Help me to forsake my ways and my values and embrace THINE, as written in Thy WORD.
O, Write Thy WORD upon my heart that I might not sin against THEE.
Thy WORD is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path that I might not stray away from THEE, O LORD.
Amen.
GLORY be to THE ELOHIM,
--- THE FATHER, SON+, and HOLY SPIRIT ---
WHO formed us in Their image;
And to HIS Beloved SON+, JESUS CHRIST,
Who+ rescued us from our fallen nature;
And to Their Divine, Bless-ed HOLY SPIRIT,
Which convicts us
when we have GONE ASTRAY.
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