BonnieBlessings: Life is like a Maze!

The Lord is allowing me to teach Sunday School for a lovely group of Deaf Adults. Our Church has been reading through the Bible slowly. Each Sunday, Pastor preaches from the chapters the congregation was to read the previous week. I also, in Sunday School class, with God's help, share a lesson from the assigned reading. I have found Isaiah to be challenging.

Yet this week God POWERFULLY spoke to my own heart from Isaiah 30.

AMEN!

The Israelites, OT book after OT book, have rebelled against God's Word. They begged forgiveness and He was faithful to forgive them. Two miles down the road they are complaining and rebelling again. Isaiah 30 says WOE TO THEM who keep going back to Egypt. It seems like such craziness for them to entertain the thought of going back to Egypt where they lived in SLAVERY, just because they get tired of the same food, or whatever.

Yet we, God's Engrafted Children (Christians) , OFTEN act the very same way as the Israelites!!

I started SS today with a MAZE....asking this adult class to find their way from Egypt to the Promised Land.

I watched each student as they tried to look ahead for walls.

I watched as they bumped into a wall and had to go a different way.

I saw the temptation for one to view another's paper because it was too challenging for them.

I had to encourage one student to continue rather than to quit.

I watched as one thought she was done, only for me to show she had not come out the exit, but rather ended at a wall.

Curve after Curve, wall after all, each student kept on until they proclaimed with glee, "I'm done!"

AMEN!

My heart ached within me as God continued to show me how "real to life" this maze is.

Before starting the actual lesson, I explained to them how the Maze was like Real Life.

We are on a journey to Heaven, it started the day we bowed ourselves in faith to Jesus.
All along the path, there are bends, where we cannot see what is coming up.
We do not always know if we made a right choice or not, until we hit the wall.
We should not stand smashed against our mistake, but turn around, until the right path is reached again.
We all wish life was a nice easy, straight journey from our Salvation to Heaven....and it is...in a way. Isaiah 35 says there are no lions or predators on this path....Lions may roar and darkness may be near, but our road is safe because JESUS has not only put us ON the path, but walks with us, step by step.