“Where To For the Christian, Muslim, and the Jew”?

Riding along in the car one day, using my phone's navigation to take my son to a sports event, the thought came to me that the map's directions didn't seem similar to the trip that I thought I had actually taken there some time ago. When I actually looked at the map, I was naive enough to think that I could wing the directions by using my foreknowledge of the "vicinity" of the actual location. Then instantly, I knew that there was a "message" in my thwarted way of thinking, being that I had made this mistake with maps a few times before, and continuously seem to keep making the same mistake with maps with my "natural eye" and "approximated idea" of where the "exact" locations are.

And to add to my complexity of using maps, even unto myself, the closer we got to the location, I realized how strange it was to fear road maps that I was not use to just because I had a preconceived notion of where to go already.

Even scarier, while I was on the path of the navigation system, I became sure of myself of how to get there! But my thoughts of getting there wasn't the way the navigation system was taking me. So of course, I'm flipping out on the inside, and constantly asking myself out loud, "Is this the way?"

Why? Because (1), I thought I had been there before. And (2), I didn't remember the way. The way we were driving looked totally different. Totally unrecognizable to me. "What high school could be out here?", I asked myself.

Dangerously, to have a "preconceived" notion is to have an experience based on actual knowledge or experience of any kind. As recorded in the book of Psalms are inspired prayers, and praise of Israel, but in the terms of human experience. The truth revealed is wrought into the emotions, desires, and sufferings of the people of God by the circumstances through which they pass. But please remember, to suffer, was never God's intent for the human being. Romans 8:17 tells us "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance, if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory." The Jew, the Muslim, the Christian alike may accept these blessings from God when they receive the son of God in their hearts! And we all may worship God in His glory together as we suffer according to the analogously sufferings of Christ as written in Psalm 22.

Note: I believe that God wants us to know from Psalm 22 just how precious life itself is. And after we suffer (our assignment) the highest cost in this life in His name, (which is Jesus the Christ, Yahweh, or your choice of cultural names for God's only begotten son), in hopes that we appreciate our lessons learned, we ourselves such as King David should look forward to entering into God's appointed place of worship again with the purpose of declaring God's name, glorifying His name because we have the greatest respect and reverence for all of life. (1) God sees when we do not have love in our hearts, and sends war, famine, and catastrophe to shorten our days in quality and in quantity. But has eternal plans to reward His diligent servants towards His Holy Will (which is where we need to be for His glory, wether we have been there or not). Mankind has never needed to be separated by evil, but kept in harmony for all to be well with him always. What God's will is can be deceiving. It is important to know within our own hearts that we belong to God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth by reading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

"The great themes of the Psalms are, Christ, Jehovah, the Law, Creation, the future of Israel, and the exercises of the renewed heart in suffering, in joy, in perplexity. The promises of the Psalms are primarily Jewish, and suited to a people under the law (the Muslim), but are spiritually true in Christian experience also, in the sense that they disclose the mind of God, and the exercises of His heart toward those who are perplexed, afflicted, or cast down.

Luke 9:52 And He sent messengers before Him; and they reached and entered a Samaritan village to make [things] ready for Him;

Luke 9:53 But [the people] would not welcome or receive or accept Him, because His face was [set as if He was] going to Jerusalem.

Luke 9:54 And when His disciples James and John observed this, they said, Lord, do You wish us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did ? [II Kings 1:9-16.]

Luke 9:55 But He turned and rebuked and severely censured them. He said, You do not know of what sort of spirit you are,

Luke 9:56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them [from the penalty of eternal death]. And they journeyed on to another village.

Luke 9:57 And it occurred that as they were going along the road, a man said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.

Luke 9:58 And Jesus told him, Foxes have lurking holes and the birds of the air have roosts and nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.

Luke 9:59 And He said to another, Become My disciple, side with My party, and accompany Me! But he replied, Lord, permit me first to go and bury (await the death of) my father.

Luke 9:60 But Jesus said to him, Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and publish abroad throughout all regions the kingdom of God.

Luke 9:61 Another also said, I will follow You, Lord, and become Your disciple and side with Your party; but let me first say good-bye to those at my home.

Luke 9:62 Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.

Because it is in the Kingdom of God that only He may be worshipped, (2) that He may be remembered unto the meek to eat and be satisfied with His provision, that He (God's Holy Word unto Abram for the Jew, Muslim, and Christian) may be "Governor" among the nations, that God will make the fat (by definition meaning: rich, stupid, and the foolish) upon the earth to eat and worship. The dead will bow to Him, and none can keep his own soul." (Psalm 22:26-31). To sum it all up, ALL MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN WILL BE PROVIDED FOR, FOREVER MORE. Amen. Hallelujah!