Which way are you going? Does direction matter? Are you headed North? South? East? West? Are you heading toward home? Are you going in the opposite direction of home?
Direction matters to God. How did I miss this?

Genesis 2:8 “God planted a garden toward the east
Genesis 3:24 “at the east of the garden of Eden, He stationed the cherubim..”
Genesis 3;9 god asked the man “Where are you?”
Ezekiel 43: 1-2 “the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east…”
Exodus 26:22 “rear of the Tabernacle;e to the west..”
Ezekiel 47: 1-3 “Water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east…”

This is a small number of examples. If we pay attention, north, south, east, and west are important to our God. Our Father definitely takes great care in scripture to give exact descriptions and exact locations.

Which way we go matters. Direction really counts.

Remember the tee ball game when the sweet little player hits his first ball and heads for third base?
What about the basketball player’s first varsity game? They are so nervous. They dribble down the court and shoot! It goes in! It’s the opponent’s goal. The football player runs down the field from the 50-yard line…he scores…wrong goal…

The one I really relate to is the half marathon. You go 13.1 miles and never get to the finish line because you ran in the exact opposite direction you were supposed to go. All those miles in the wrong direction…pitiful.

But isn’t that what we do when we deny God? When we refuse the salvation offered to us in Jesus? Aren’t we walking our life journey in the wrong direction? How can we ever get “home” if we aren’t headed for home?

We have all heard that repentance indicates we were walking in one direction and have done a complete 180-degree change in direction. We repent. We change direction. We don’t have to keep heading the wrong way. Roads can turn off in different directions. We can come to a fork in the road and we even come to crossroads. Choosing the God road home is always best.

It seems like the most basic, elementary truth. Walk in the correct direction. In the ballgame, run to your goal to score. Run the race headed to the finish line. Obvious. Not a deep concept.

My question is, “Why are the most obvious, elementary concepts so difficult to translate into our life walk?