Where are we going?

The other day I was remembering an incident that happened with my parents a few years ago. My husband and I decided to take my parents on a little day trip to visit the family farm we used to visit so often when I was a child. It was a beautiful day and my parents were eager, as was I, to get out for a drive. When we reached the town where the farm was my dad instructed me where to turn. He told me turn right here and turn left there. Go straight turn right again etc. About 10 or 15 minutes passed with my dad giving me these instructions and then he turned to me and asked "Where are we going?" You see my dad had Alzheimer's and for the first part of the trip he was completely lucid, and then suddenly he lost his way. I smile every time I remember that day. My dad even had to laugh.

Lately I got to thinking about that story and I had to relate it to what I have been trying to do with changing this beaten down, overweight temple, I call my body. I have lost my way. My weight is holding at a 25 pound loss and it should be over 30 at this time. Now it is I asking myself "where are you going?" "Do you know where to turn, to get back on the right track?" "Do you have your goals set before you?" "Do you know how to achieve what you have set out to do?" I thought I knew the answers to those questions but lately I haven't seen the results that I want. When we couldn't find the farm that day we had to find help. I know I need to do the same thing to get back on track. Today at church I found out though Pastor Arndt using God's Word how to get back on the right road. He preached a sermon from Matthew 26:41 where Jesus asked his disciples to "watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the body is weak." Pastor said, "one of the keys to handling temptation is what we do before temptations comes."

TIP: For you and for me. Watch and pray so that we can be prepared to handle all of what life has in store for us tomorrow.