What Path are you on?

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
   or walk in the way of evildoers.
¹⁵ Avoid it, do not travel on it;
   turn from it and go on your way. (Prov. 4:14-15)
I'm sure we've all heard this before. This is a real important thing to keep in mind. This is something that if we follow will save us from hurts, worries, troubles, and tons of unnecessary problems that we could avoid. The tricky thing about this is this road that we are suppose to stay off of is the road that our flesh craves to be on. This is the raod that the world tells us that we should be on. This is the road that looks like fun, sounds fun, and to behonest is fun. The thing about this fun and this road is that first of all it's temporal and this roads leads to nowhere. These things that you will experience on this road might feel good and satisfy your flesh for maybe a day, week, month, or maybe a few years. But I can tell you that you will never be fully satisfied and you will always be wanting more. Even though this raod seems fun and you think this is great you have to remeber that this road has an end that will leave you broken.
The reason I feel so passionate about this is because I know what it feels like to be on this road that this proverbs warns us to stay off of. I took this path and I did everything that my flesh desired and the things that the world would tell you "is living". I got drunk and high all the time. I lived it up in Vegas pretty much every weekend, and without going into detail I never denied my flesh for the opposite sex either. I lived like this for a good amount of time. No matter how drunk, high, or "fun" things were I was never satisfied. I was always wanting more and when I wasn't doing these things I just felt empty and alone. Just like I said earlier this road ends in pain. I was left broken and in pieces. There was actually a point in life where I didn't want to live anymore, and if you know me that's not me but that's how bad it got. Then one day I just realized that this way wasn't the way to go, I realized that I  needed something else, I needed healing, restoration, and most of all a love and joy that would last more then a weekend. That's when I found Jesus and I started walking on the other road. All I can tell you is that this road I'm on is a road that is full of joy, peace, and a love that has never left me.
I don't know what road you're on, I'm not sure if you've even heard of the other road, the road that Jesus ask us to walk on. I want to leave you with this. If you have strayed from Jesus' road or have never knew there to be another road besides the road the world tells you to live then it's not too late to start your path down the road with Jesus. No matter what you've done or how many times you've walked away from this road, Jesus is there and is always ready to take you back.
So my prayer for us today is that we make the choice to get back on, start walking, or keep walking down this road with Jesus. I also pray for the strenght and faith for us to let God be God.