Webs that Entangle

I think I have found something that we can all agree on.  You ready to hear what it is?  How many you hate, now we can all agree on something we hate that is a miracle, How many of you hate unexpectedly walking into a spiderweb?

That feeling you get when you are dressed and ready for the day and you go out to get into your car and just as to reach out to open the door a spiderweb brushes across your face.  Oh man, that can make you squirm.

No doubt you have seen spiderman as some point in your life.  What a weapon he has to wrap up his enemies with a spider web so strong that most cannot set themselves free.

Could you image walking into a spiderweb that actual froze you in your tracks.  That would be terrible

have to stop and take notice of the webs that are entangling us.  We have listen to God’s word and allow God to speak truth louder than the culture around us.  We have respond to the sin that is in our hearts, souls, and minds.  We have to believe that Jesus is the way, truth, and the life.  That no one comes to the Father except by Jesus.

We have to stop, listen, respond, and repent we would experience the power, presence, and purposes of God through Jesus Christ setting us free from the weight from entanglements of sin.  And trust that God’s way does bring life and life abundantly.

Where are you this morning?

What would it look like for you stop?  To stop peddling hoping to make it to the end.  

What would look like for you to stop?

What would it take for you listen?  

To listen to God’s word, to His wisdom and His desires instead of trusting in your own understanding?  What would it take, what would it look like for you to actually ask God to reveal the fullness of His wisdom and desires for you instead of assuming you already know and especially instead of listening to the culture who denies God to define your path to take?

What would it look like to stop and listen?

What would look like for you to respond to wisdom and will of God?  What is your response as you begin to see the webs that entangle you?  

Will you see with God eyes and do a hippie jibbie dance getting rid of all that is not of Him in your life?  Will you repent? For it is in repentance that power of God begins set you free to become all that god has designed and desired for your to be.  It is here that faith comes alive and begins to work in a way that you could never think or imagine.  

We are on a path.  One is wide the whole world seems to be following it and this wide path will lead to destruction, the other path is narrow and few will find.  But this narrow road, it leads to eternal life, and all the saints who have gone before point us in that direction.

Because of the glory of God that we have seen in those who have gone before, may stop, listen, respond, and repent that we may see Jesus as our redeemer, the sacrifice for our sins and may we experience His power setting us free that we actually become more like him and less like the world around us.  Amen.