Fall is a most interesting time of the year.
Take, for example, the leaves in the trees. Six months before, they were no more than barely visible buds strung along bare branches. Only in our minds could we imagine the beauty they would bring to the world around us.
Then, demonstrating the undeniable majesty of God’s hand, they sprang forth in a vibrancy of green that changed the appearance of the world. They graced us with color, and all summer long they provided shade from the warming sun.
Then, their true majesty burst forth, as the reds and oranges of fall foliage spread among the branches. They took our breath away.
However, try to walk a familiar path in the heady depths of fall. It’s gone, disappeared, covered by the fallen leaves. We can easily wander astray, lost; and stumble when we thought we knew where to place each familiar footstep.
What was once beautiful and treasured has become dead, and it now litters our way. It hides the truth of God’s plan for our lives, and if we do not sweep the detritus of summer aside, we will become lost, heading down a side road that will take us nowhere at all.
We will fall into the sin that so easily besets us.
John 14:6 gives us the words of Jesus:
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’ ”
That is the only path we can walk to find life in him. We know that, for we have been taught that truth from our youth.
Yet, when lost youth, failed business opportunities, and soured relationships litter the ground at our feet, and we do not sweep them away, they are as leaves that have fallen from the trees overhead, and they will keep us from finding God’s will for our lives. We must sweep them aside, bag them up, and let God carry them away for permanent disposal.
We must recognize that the past is the past, and we have to let go. God is a god of the future, not one that brings up our past to hide the way that leads to him. He wants us to let go, also. He wants us to find the new life he has ready and waiting for us.
Hosea 4:6 says we are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us the scriptures are there so we may learn how to live for God.
Let’s crack the Book. That’s how we sweep the leaves aside. That’s how we keep our path clear. That’s how we find where God wants us to go.
When we keep our eyes on God, the past won’t cause us to lose our way to him.
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