3 Questions

There are three questions that you ask yourself every day, multiple times a day, over and over again. Question number one, where am I? Question number two, where do I need to be? Question number three, how do I get there?

Where are you? You woke up this morning and you immediately realized where you were. Well hopefully you immediately realized that, if not you need to address some things! But more than likely you woke up opened your eyes and you were in your bedroom. Call it an awareness of your location.

Where do you need to be? Take a typical weekday for example. If you’re like most you work during the week. So you wake up, become aware of your location and at some point your mind then switches to the awareness of where you need to be, at work. You do whatever you do to get ready for work, because you have an awareness of your need to be at work.

How do you get there? So you woke up, realized where you were and you have realized where you need to be. So now you are faced with the third question, how do you get there? Or you may ask yourself what is going to get you there?  You need to get from point A to point B. Most of the people I know, including myself, use a car. Some may use a bus or a cab and a few might walk. But most of us will rely on getting in something to get us to where we need to be.

This is a concept we can all get our minds around. Where are we? Where do we need to be? How do we get there? Even young children can understand this. School is getting ready to start back soon. My kids are going to wake up and realize where they are. With my help by the way, “wake up get out of bed”! They are going to realize where they need to be. With my help by the way, “get ready you have to go to school”! They are going to realize how to get there. With my help by the way, “let’s go, get IN the car”! If you have kids they may ride the bus and you say, “come on you have to catch the bus”! For the kids that ride a bus to school, they have an understanding that they must get IN the bus in order for it to take them to school.

The Gospel. Where are we? We are separated from an intimate and personal relationship with God because of our sin. Where do we need to be? We need to be in an intimate and personal relationship with God. How do we get there? We get there by getting IN Jesus Christ our Savior; 2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made Him (Jesus) who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him (Jesus) we might become the righteousness of God” NIV.