May 28 – The Path That Leads to Life

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today.

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May. 28th The path that leads to
life.

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We make decisions every day that
feel completely reasonable in

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the moment.
A shortcut that saves time.

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A choice that avoids discomfort.
A path that looks good from

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where you’re standing and then
weeks, months, sometimes years

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later you look back and realize
the direction you were heading

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wasn’t actually toward anything
good, it just felt like it was.

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Proverbs chapter 16, verse 25 is
one of those verses that’s worth

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memorizing because it tells the
truth about something we all

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need to hear regularly.
There is a way that seems right

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to a man, but it’s end is the
way to death.

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That’s not trying to be
dramatic, it’s naming something

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real.
Our own instincts and feelings

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are not always reliable guides.
What feels right, especially in

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a moment of temptation, peer
pressure, or emotional pain, is

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not always what leads somewhere
good.

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We need something more
trustworthy than our own gut to

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navigate this life well.
And then verse 26 adds an

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interesting balance.
The appetite of the laboring man

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works for him.
His hunger drives him on.

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There’s a positive kind of
hunger, the drive towards

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something meaningful, the
motivation to work and grow and

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pursue what matters.
That hunger is a gift.

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God designed you with desire and
ambition and longing for

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purpose.
The question is simply what that

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hunger is aimed at.
When your deepest desire is for

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what is true, good and life
giving, that hunger becomes

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fuel.
It drives you forward in the

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right direction.
Ephesians chapter 3, verses 17

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to 19 show us what being rooted
in the right thing actually

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looks like.
So that Christ may dwell in your

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hearts through faith.
That you being rooted and

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grounded in love, may have
strength to comprehend with all

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the Saints what is the breadth
and length and height and depth,

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and to know the love of Christ
that surpasses knowledge.

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Rooted and grounded in love.
Not rooted in achievement.

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Not grounded in other people’s
opinions.

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Rooted in the love of Christ.
A love so vast and deep and wide

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that it genuinely surpasses your
ability to fully comprehend it.

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And yet, it’s not distant or
abstract.

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It dwells in you.
It lives in your heart through

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faith.
When that’s your foundation, you

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have something stable enough to
navigate every confusing

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crossroads.
Because the question isn’t just

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what feels right anymore.
The question becomes what aligns

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with who I am in Christ and
where He is leading me?

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That’s a completely different
navigation system.

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And Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20
caps it all with one of the most

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extraordinary promises in the
New Testament.

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Now to Him who is able to do far
more abundantly than all that we

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ask or think according to the
power at work within us, far

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more abundantly.
Not just a little more than you

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hoped.
Not just enough to get by far

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beyond what you could ask or
imagine.

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And here’s the key.
According to the power at work

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within you, not external to you,
within you, the same Spirit that

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raised Jesus from the dead is at
work inside you right now, able

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to do things in and through your
life that you genuinely cannot

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conceive yet.
So don’t settle for the path

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that merely seems right.
Choose the path that leads to

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life.
Even when it’s harder.

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Even when it costs you
something.

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Even when the other way looks
easier because you are being led

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by love, empowered by a God who
does more than you can imagine,

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and rooted in something that
will never give way.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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warning me that not every path
that feels right actually leads

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somewhere good.
Help me to stay honest with

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myself and to bring my choices
to You rather than just trusting

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my own instincts.
Root me and ground me in Your

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love so that I navigate life
from that foundation.

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And God, I trust you to do far
more in my life than I could

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ever ask or think.
Work through me, lead me and

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keep me on the path that leads
to real life in Jesus name,

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Amen.
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darkness loses every right to
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Proverbs chapter 16 verses 25 to
26 World English Bible There is

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a way which seems right to a
man, but in the end it leads to

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death.
The appetite of the laboring man

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laborers for him, for his mouth
urges him on.

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Ephesians Chapter 3 World
English Bible for this ’cause I,

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Paul, am the prisoner of Christ
Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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If it is so, that you have heard
of the administration of that

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grace of God which was given me
toward you, how that by

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revelation the mystery was made
known to me, as I wrote before

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in few words.
By which when you read, you can

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perceive my understanding in the
mystery of Christ, which in

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other generations was not made
known to the children of men.

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As it has now been revealed to
His holy apostles and prophets

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in the Spirit, that the Gentiles
are fellow heirs and fellow

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members of the Body, and fellow
partakers of His promise in

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Christ Jesus.
Through the Good News of which I

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was made a servant, according to
the gift of that grace of God

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which was given me according to
the working of His power To me.

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The very least of All Saints was
this grace given to preach to

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the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ, and to make

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all men see what is the
administration of the mystery

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which for ages has been hidden
in God, who created all things

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through Jesus Christ.
To the intent that now through

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the assembly the manifold wisdom
of God might be made known to

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the principalities and the
powers in the heavenly places,

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according to the eternal purpose
which He accomplished in Christ

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Jesus our Lord.
In Him we have boldness and

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access in confidence through our
faith in Him.

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Therefore I ask that you may not
lose heart at my troubles for

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you which are Your glory.
For this ’cause I bow my knees

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to the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, from whom every family

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in heaven and on earth is named.
That He would grant you

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according to the riches of His
glory, that you may be

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strengthened with power through
His Spirit in the inner person.

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That Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith to the end.

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That you, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be

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strengthened to comprehend with
all the Saints what is the width

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and length and height and depth,
and to know Christ’s love, which

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surpasses knowledge, that you
may be filled with all the

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fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do

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exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according

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to the power that works in us,
To Him be the glory in the

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assembly and in Christ Jesus to
all generations, forever and

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ever.
Amen.

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