Snippet: No Shortcuts

Snip·pet | ˈsnipit | noun a small piece or brief extract.

Her'e’s another one from Eugene Peterson (author of the Message translation and more than 30 other books) and Lectio 365’s Monday devotional:

“‘Everyone is in a hurry,’ Peterson wrote, “The persons whom I lead in worship want shortcuts. They are impatient for results. They only want the high points. The Christian life cannot mature in such ways. It is this ‘long obedience in the same direction’ which the mood of the world does so much to discourage.
There are two biblical designations of people of faith that are extremely useful: disciple and pilgrim. Disciple says we spend our lives apprenticed to our master, Jesus Christ. Pilgrim tells us we are people who spend our lives going to God, and whose path for getting there is Jesus Christ, [who is] ‘the Road, also the Truth, also the Life’ (John 14:6).”

A long obedience in the same direction.

Disciples and pilgrims.

Jesus is the path, the truth, and the life.

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