This word is submitted by Doug Mead (meaddr@netzero.net)

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Two Roads

There are 'Two roads that diverge in a wood'. One is 'less traveled.' The first is the way of your comfort. The second is to follow My Spirit. The choice remains yours. I will not force you to follow Me, but I offer this opportunity.

Embrace the discomfort; It is your friend. My Holy Spirit will lead you through your discomfort to a place of liberty. It is not the big things that I am speaking about, rather the small things that you have refused to do. As you obey Me, you will know Me. You will learn to hear and know My voice. That is the focus of My attention. These small lessons will make room for Me in your heart. I am not asking you to perform, but rather to follow My lead. I am not interested in simply changing your actions, but I want your heart.

You have comfortable little boxes, prisons in your heart. Let Me lead you into green pastures where 'I Am' your fences. Find your limitations in Me. Let this be an adventure, a frolic with Me. You can not fail in performance because it is not that type of walk. You succeed and find gain when I have your heart.

You may choose decorum and respectability or abandonment to Me. I will call you to do 'seemingly weird things. Maybe even to kneel in a public place or dance like David danced in My presence. Or spit in the sand to make ointment for someone's eyes. I might call upon you at inconvenient times. Surely, I can schedule My times around yours, but can you and will you schedule your life around Me? Know this that every passed test will be rewarded, for I will enlarge the capacity of your heart for Me. I will order your steps in the paths of righteousness for My namesake.

There are chains of bondage, guilt and sin that hamper your lives. You may choose My anointing and I will break those bondages, one by one. It will be a highway unto holiness paved with small acts of obedience. Each step will change your heart, each step will cost you something. But you will have Me. I will be your reward.

You do not have to dance or shout. You can keep your decorum, your respectability. But you can not keep them and have Me. You can keep your alabaster box with your ointment safely held within or break it open and lavish it upon Me. 'I Am' about raising up a generation that is radical for Me. A generation upon which I can spread My manifest presence with trust that it will not be tarnished. So I invite you this day to pursue Me. It is a season when I may easily be found

Many are called, but few are chosen. Choose the 'road less traveled' for in it you will find Me.

Come away with Me, My beloved