The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and there are no green pastures He leadeth me beside still waters and still waters run deep

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Prov. 3:6)

Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

All we like sheep have gone astray.

All I can tell you is faith is just the beginning of a long, difficult journey.

But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.