For this year's Easter message, we bring you something a little different. Many of you have noticed that we have used as a guideline to our adventure, "Follow Your Internal Compass". We've talked about it in a previous post, but it seems we didn't fully understand it. What if there's another meaning behind this adventure, and perhaps the Internal Compass is not something that we control, nor should control?
Some of you who have delved in Biblical history may know of the Tower of Babel, how the people scared of the effects of a relatively recent global flood started to build a large structure to prepare in case it happened again, all in the same area of what became Babylon. We won't go too much into the details of what was happening; that's mostly covered in this discussion. However, it could be said that they "followed their internal compass", but what they didn't realize was what was the driving force behind this "internal compass". Turns out it wasn't something that good, and who knows what would have happened if it was allowed to continue as one group.
For us, this has been a journey of discovery. For some, the proper morals were already there but a name association was not. For others, the names were known, but didn't exactly act according to the proper morals. Once we started to establish our first few trip locations after going full time, almost in what seemed like a ploy to "fit in" around the Bible Belt, we'd tune to a Christian Rock radio station, maybe pick up a pamphlet or two and thumb through them. It didn't really do much in our minds; they just merely "called out" as an opportunity of sorts. After a few events and realizing that there might be something to these callings, we grabbed good ol' King James with the red text that previously belonged to our ancestors but decided to pack, and started going through it. We were concerned about going through all of it and not skipping over things so as not to miss context. Sadly it proved arduous, and the idea was abandoned. At least, until we made our way back to South Dakota and got in touch with both A Christian Ministry in the National Parks and Crossroads of Custer. The latter gave us a path to go through the whole thing, and despite some turbulence along the way, we were able to get through all of it over the course of a year. In addition, they've given us the chance, even if we're hundreds of miles away, to allow them to help us practice and follow.
It has taken quite a while to realize this, several decades in fact. Maybe it just took a read-through of the Bible, or perhaps it was the multitude of trips and corresponding tribulations. However, we are reminded of when, after Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, in Acts 2, that He would send a messenger to each one of us. That is what is imprinted upon all of our hearts. We think of it as "morals" as a way to try to dodge the subject on account of social acceptance, but that is from where it comes. The Lord is our Internal Compass. May He be praised for giving us this greatness. It is now up to us to recognize this, to confess His Glory placed upon all of us, and to share this Good News with the world that we no longer have to be evil. We can choose to follow Him. He can be our Internal Compass.
So this Easter, while some of you may be having fun with egg coloring and hunting, may we more importantly remember that He is our Internal Compass, and that we should Follow.
Wishing you and yours a Happy Easter. Nothing like a banjo picker during the Sunrise Service.
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