3 Ways to the Lord?

Jesus,

Each day we have many decisions. We have many choices that we can make. We can choose to either follow you any choice with the world. There's so many lost and hurting and in cold in this world due to evil. I ask you, I beg you rather, that you send your grace down in multitude to those who are cold lost and hurting. Maybe own receive sufficient grace today to see you in this day that you given us. May we see you, come to know you and love you so that we may never be alone again and may find the peace and happiness that only you can give.

In Jesus Christ name I pray, amen.

Galatians 1:13-24

Brothers and sisters: You heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it, and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions. But when he, who from my mother's womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas and remained with him for fifteen days. But I did not see any other of the Apostles, only James the brother of the Lord. (As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.) Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ; they only kept hearing that "the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." So they glorified God because of me.

Luke 10:38-42

Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."

I read these two passages and it seems that there are three ways in which someone can come to the Lord (though there may be many others). As we read Galatians one of the paths that maybe chosen is to follow God and his ways, but become lost in them. Sometimes our zeal for following the rules outweighs our love for God and we get mixed up. Wind up following man's view on God instead of following God himself. Luckily for all of us saw saw the light and excepted it and chose to preach the good news as his name was changed to Paul and became one of the mighty evangelizers years of the early church.

More often than not though I find myself identifying with Mary and Martha from the Gospel of Luke. Too many times I find myself feeling like Martha. I get caught up in the hubbub of the day and I run myself mad and wear myself out. It's only in those moments of clarity, when I come to realize what is truly important, and I act as Mary. I live in the moment, I live for love and I live to to love like God. No matter if I am at church meditating, or if I am at work in the middle of my day, I do my best to remain in constant prayer and to keep my thoughts focused on God. For when I have my thoughts continually focused on God, I am constantly in the mode of loving. When I am in that motive loving I find happiness. For happiness comes out of love in love after all is God. I will adamantly admit that I am no saint. I am a flawed man that sends regularly. I'm better than I have been, but I still have much to learn. I'm thankful for God's grace and that he is in my life. I recognize that I've been born into a battle. I've been born into a spiritual battle in which Satan is not only trying to damn my soul and drag me into hell, but each and every other person that I meet. So as I go about my days I not only try to choose the righteous path myself so that I may be happy in this life and the eternal one afterwards that I will hopefully receive in heaven, but I also tried to share the good news and try to share God's love so that those that I may meet may find Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior as well.

And that's all I got to say about that.