Where do I seek to go? There are two types of journey. My heart calls me to one of whim and want. Travelling roads that lead to fulfillment of the things my taste requires, my lust intern and my wishes entail. Finding these endings I am left with dilemma. For if I am fulfilled however briefly I am confronted with the need for maintenance or sustainment of these objectives under my own capacities or energy. For to pursue happiness is the right I have been given, the attainment and continuation of that happiness is my own regard. The other method of journeying is being led by some external impetus, muse or voice. This style or commitment leads to ends that were not justified by my means. Those objectives having been sponsored outside my drives are by nature unrelated to the passions of person and lead to places which arguably lie beyond the context of my own definition of happiness.

Obeying external prompts comes with the inherent danger of discerning the good intentions or “Rightness” of purpose in that leading. This venture demands a period of time however brief where each of us determine the reliability or suitability of that leadership for we must invariably accept the difficulties, impossibilities and consequence of following that muse or master. Additionally, the catalysts for this type of journey are nearly entirely different than the pursuits of self-justification, therefore these objectives, which their modifier portrays are independent of our subjective wants, desires and ends. To achieve Objectives provokes the need for methods outside of my own energy, passion and talent or treasure. This is the pivotal importance of recognition/acknowledgement of those forces as work in Creation and that person which Created it.

For instance, I may pursue Salvation through my own means of ritualistic purity, solemnity, practice, art, study and self-denial without the recognition of these objective outcomes and therefore place myself on the habitrail or mobius strip of man’s attempt to achieve the perfect through imperfect, self-sustained means. Therefore, embarkation without recognition and acknowledgement of God’s Sovereignty simply puts me on a path of works without possibility of the Divine only available through that primary recognition. This is the horrific state of man caught in what is referred to as a “Doctrine of Works”. A path that meanders in attempts at resembling God that eventually arrives at a precipice that may not be crossed by mortal means at its end, leaving the man who travelled this path unfulfilled by nature. This is the dilemma of continuing in maintenance of salvation found through LAW, for the law may never save as it is meant to provoke or evoke the need for Supernatural participation and commitment not be the means to the end but the Acknowledgement of our Need for God in order to reach that which has always been beyond our means.

Now the most difficult part is that once on the path led by the Spirit of Almighty, we may at any point forget this incongruity and depart once again to a doctrine led by rules, laws, self-piety in unfortunately inevitable failure. The only way to God is through the Path made New by His Son across the impassible precipice at which one’s own works end. We must in fact deny ourselves and not meet promptings or catalysts with our own efforts but be conscious in our invitation of the Spirit to resolve those things, navigate those paths and direct those outcomes which we have already acknowledged were always outside of our own pursuits, passion or prognostication. Daily recognition is needed, that is why I believe it is called RE-Cognition as it must be daily refreshed and picked up as burden or reminder thereof of the nature and purpose of the journey has always been beyond self.

What then should we expect as those who are being led, directed or patiently awaiting the pathway to emerge before our eyes and understanding? First, we would become inclined to face the provocations not as negative circumstance or victimhood but rather as the catalysts, muses or ushering sequences designed to build, prompt make possible achievement of those things or travel beyond subjectivity. The dilemma once again is discerning those things which are Holy, Right and True in contrast to those ventures which will once again subject us to the wiles and aspirations of material man. We must remain, “in the Spirit” of Godhood to stay true, a state that we may easily internalize and adapt this divine walk to one of works. We must remember that this has always been an impossible task for man, therefore each day man must remember that he is not achieving the impossible by self but rather through the acknowledged gift of God’s indwelling miraculous Spirit. In this recognition, we find the pathway, pain, provocation, envy and testing that raises the capacity for man to overcome all that is in this world as our Savior has done in example. The Joy of taking this path is that we get to face each obstacle or deliverance with the inherent JOY that comes with knowing God is bringing us to Him. That Joy I believe is in knowing that we could never reach him on our own, so He came to us. There is no greater peace and joy, which is the promise of this pathway.