Saturday, April 30, 2011

On Taking Detours: And choosing God's way

 
True religion has never yet been fashionable. God grant that one day it may become so; but it is still true, as in the days of Christ, that “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” The gateway of spiritual birth, like the gateway of natural birth, admits men only one by one, and without encumbrances. If, in the future, more people succeed in entering that way than in the past, it will not be because of any widening of the gate, but because of a greater disposition on the part of men to make the “great surrender” which God demands; because long and bitter experience has at last brought them to see the folly of choosing their own way instead of God’s way.
 
 
 
The Illahee Preserve noon-time hiking crew went hiking and, because of mud and puddles, had to take a few detours. We just had to .-gw
 

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