God has given us each of us a compass to lead us home to Him. Magnetic North is Heaven, but His counsel is our needle. If we discard His counsel, we must likewise discard the needle, and though Magnetic North yet remains, to the awareness of all those who still have their needles, we will not know where to go.
The scriptures are a guidebook from Heaven, and prayer is an opportunity to have an interview with the editor. The guidebook may be difficult to read. The editor may speak REALLY quietly and be hard to hear at times. But when the guidebook is for a certain mountain, and we are all mountaineers thereon, who can deny that it is of value? And who can consider it worthless to speak with He that has reached the mountain's summit?
If you feel that you are too busy climbing the mountain to read about how best to climb it, perhaps it's time for you to sit down for a few minutes. Remember that when you are traversing the greatest mountains you are required to acclimatize at regular intervals.
When you study the scriptures, STUDY them. Don't just read because you love the part where Ammon chops off arms, but because on every page there is something important for you to learn. When we read the scriptures for their entertainment value, or to check it off on our To-Do List, then we defeat the purpose of studying at all.
But it is not enough to simply find True North and follow its lead. There are tollbooths all along the way. Here we pay not in money but in our sins, and there is no end to the tollbooths until there is an end to our sins and we have given up everything weak about ourselves for the sake of reaching our heavenly home.
Where, of course, we learn that whenever we give up that which was weak, it was replaced by something strong.
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