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we also know that the wise men went home a different way. matthew 2.12 (esv) tells us that they departed to their own country by another way.

men who have come to worship CHRIST throughout the generations have always gone home another way. you can’t go the same way after worshipping JESUS. you can never be the same again!

saul of tarsus was “breathing out fire and threatenings against the church.” he was willing to kill CHRIStians to preserve the purity of the jewish religion. but one day he met CHRIST and HE was never, ever, to be the same again. he went a different way!

vacillating, cursing, hard-boiled fisherman - peter, andrew, james and john, when they met JESUS their lives were changed and transformed. they were never the same again.

it’s the new year and we think of the wise men. and they were wise men! not in the way the world thinks, but they were wise men because they were willing to follow wherever GOD led, they were wiser than the men of the world. they worshipped CHRIST, gave their gifts, and went home a different way.

what about you? what about me? what about this new year? GOD wants to make a difference in us so we will make a difference for HIM.

i’ll be honest, i am really tired at just surviving, just going the same way, doing things the same way. i want to be willing to follow wherever GOD leads, i want to be wiser than the men of the world, i want to worship HIM and give HIM everything HE wants and i want go home a different way.

you know a rut is a grave with the ends knock out. i don’t want to live in a rut, i don’t believe GOD wants any of us to live in a rut. let’s let HIM make a difference in us, to fill us with HIS HOLY SPIRIT, to cleanse us of the garbage in our lives, and to empowered us to make a difference in our world.

what about you?

just a thought from the front porch…