Easier but smaller.[ John 12 v24 ]

I was watching a film and a mother said to her son, to return home where it would be easier,and he replied,yes easier , but smaller.Easier but small, it is the easiest road that appears more attractive,some teams are content with just being,while others desire to achieve. Many people have chosen the easier way,and so their experience is limited and not fulfilling,but it is often in taking the apparent harder way,that we grow. It would have been easier for Dr .M.L.King to have refrained from leading the civil rights movement, but in so doing he would have been smaller,and America would have been smaller.When M. Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle church at Wittenberg, he was not taking the easy way,if he had refrained from doing this, he would have remained just another monk,instead of the great reformer. When people desired to follow Jesus, He did not promise the easy way,He told them ,to take up their cross, to Deny themselves.So many people clammier for instant riches,instant fame,while others strive years to reach their goal,and in that striving they grow,oh yes they may fail in their goals,they may even die in seeking to reach their goals,but there is something in the trying that the easier way can never give.
A  prayer..../Dear Saviour lead us in the way we should go,even if that way is not the easy way, Amen/