No one wants to be a fool but foolishness lives in every heart. It crouches and waits in the corners of the mind watching for an opportunity to pounce. We never outgrow it and it is in those times when we are tired, lonely, in pain, or in any way weakened in spirit, that sin beckons us down the proverbial “Garden Path” to personal disaster. Though the promises are pleasant there is no joy, at any age, found on the garden path of sin.
A Stroll on the Garden Path
Weary but much too restless for a nap…
I went a strolling down the garden path…
Headed aimlessly by careless choosing…
Never considering myself a silly sap…
My life was carefree, everything a laugh!
Sure I was a winner, I was really loosing…
Wandering in garden path’s fateful trap…
Meandering my time, didn’t do the math…
Walking a daydream, wakeful snoozing…
Didn’t care, didn’t wear thinking cap!
God watched but I didn’t do my half;
Into disaster, for-a-bruising- cruising!
Heart unguarded, sin began to tap…
Life now charted on a downhill graph!
Begin to stagger as someone boozing!
Reality-sin-regret-conscience-snap!
End of wooing garden path’s soothing;
Sorrowful exiting chosen garden path…
There’s no sap like an old sap! I thought that by the time I reached my current age, I’d have it all together. I dreamed I’d be wise, gentle, kind and no longer prone to follow the foolishness of my heart. I thought the “Garden Path” would no longer lure me astray through wrong-headed desire. The reality is that we never outgrow the propensity toward sin and I need Jesus at 59, just as badly as I needed Him, when I met Him, at 19. I am still learning, growing, and sometimes, stumbling. Jesus is still helping me up, brushing me off, and setting me back on the Way. Wisdom doesn’t come with age; it comes by grace, when we refuse the beckoning of the heart and follow Jesus. Knowledge is power and wisdom is God’s power applied when we heed His small still voice inside. Love is His graceful action to rescue us when we fail, no matter how young or old we are. How thankful I am for Jesus, the author and the keeper of my joy!
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I am doubtful if there is ever going to be a time or age in our lives that we won’t need God’s steering hands to guide us.Love the poem.
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I had many misconceptions as a new Christian. I expected many things to be different than they are but God’s Way is better than what I imagined. I love being Daddy’s little girl.:0)
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God’s ways are definitely mysterious and not our ways. Enjoy basking in his love 🙂
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You too sweet sister, Jacqueline.:0)
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Happy Friday, Vincent!
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Likewise Pam and God bless you and yours!
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“How thankful I am for Jesus, the author and the keeper of my joy!”
It is a Profound thought and wish only a devotee would speak of.
What more can I say.
My salutations to You.
Shiva
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Thank you, Shiva. Have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend!
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“Wisdom doesn’t come with age; it comes by grace”
Amen!
And age? How very young compared to “When we’ve been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun.”
Graduation day is nearer now than when we first begun. Lord be praised!
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We might even graduate together, g.w.! We have to keep looking up!
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Amen, Pam!
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Hope you’re being gentle on yourself sweet Pam-️love you 💗
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Trying…a little mad at myself for not following my own rules…not that I did anything that terrible but I have high standards…I’m better today than yesterday and I’ll be much better tomorrow. Love you.
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Ok sweetie. I can’t imagine you doing anything close to terrible. I just hope no one is making you feel bad. I love you 💗💗
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I just fell into an old pattern of relationship that I worked hard to break but old ways sneak back in easy. I snapped out of it and I’ll be okay…just processing. Thanks for caring.
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Ok beautiful Pam 💗💗
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If it weren’t for those little buggers called iniquities that doth so easily beset us…Oh well. I can see you were reading my mail again. You know, that is a federal crime. Just saying. Stay sweet my friend.
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Thank you, Patrick.:0)
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Loved this line, “Wisdom doesn’t come with age; it comes by grace”
I’ve always despised the “wisdom comes with age” line. What naive nonsense! 😉
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Truth is much better than nonsense. Thank you, Jacob.
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Your beginning line caught my attention. There really is foolishness in every heart, no matter the age. It is called fallibility of humans. That is why we need to learn and above all love ourselves enough to forgive our own follies.
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Yes, accept what we are and reach for God’s help. That is when we function as we were designed. We can’t be like God because we are human but without God, we become less than human. If not for Jesus, foolishness would be the only inhabitant of my heart…
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