Poles are great for marking things, especially locations hard to see.
Take shopping, for instance. We’re in a store, and the shelves obscure our view of what’s beyond the nearest display. We can look for the store’s pole markers with the names of items thrust toward the ceiling, and we know just where to head.
Athletes use pole markers, also. In snow events, they can be thrust through the snow to mark the location of obstacles or to form a course. In surfing, they mark rocks or the location of rescue boats.
Inter-island ferries love pole markers. They are navigation aids to keep from going aground. They are marked with colors or lights to tell the ferries to head to port or starboard to be safe.
What are our pole markers in our Christian experience? How can we find the truth of Christ, determine where God needs us, and get there safely? And as importantly, what about us will lead others to Jesus?
Isaiah 65:17 tells us God will remove old obstructions that might trip us up.
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.”
Ephesians 4:22-24 says we will look more and more like Christ.
“To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Colossians 3:9-10 assures us God will reveal himself to us as we walk with him.
“Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”
1 Peter 1:3 says our marker of our faith is our hope of resurrection in Jesus.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
Revelation 21:4 promises us peace in Christ as a testament of our faith and trust in him.
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
We don’t have to guess at our Christianity. It’s not a mystery. When we choose to follow Christ, we become different, our life veers a new direction, and those people who knew us before will see the change in us.
We will become pole markers to lead others to Christ.
Jesus is the prize, and we are to direct the lost to him.
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