Ps. 32:8 May be it was not your road

In my childhood I have a friend. He is very short. In our school there is a girl. She is very tall. In break time we go to the next street where there is a tamarind tree. His friend would climb up and throw the tamarind. This short guy would stand under the tree and pick them up. The tall girl came and stood beside him. The first one to catch tamarind was this girl because she is taller. She steals that way. This short guy would run after her but she runs faster than him and he could not catch her. 

An another day the same thing happened. This time this short guy said some thing that made her very angry. This time it was her turn to run after him and he got to escape. Being short he cannot run faster but he was brilliant. He chose a road that goes through where there are many trees. They are small trees. The branches block you and you got to bend. My short friend has no need to bend. Just running as faster as he can where as this girl got to bend. She failed to catch him.

It was his disadvantage to be short. When he chose the right path, the same shortness became his advantage. If you know the way you got to go, the same disadvantage that has been troubling you for a long time will become your advantage. You need to chose a right path. How do you know your way to go? The Lord said, "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you." Ps. 32:8. The Lord knows it. Why dont you ask him today. You will surely reach your destiny.

Ex. 30:17-21 Laver

You want to wash your hands before you eat. You dont take bathe before you eat because you already had a bath. Laver talks about cleansing.

1. Repentance and forgiveness
John the baptist was not teaching on baptism. His teaching was on repentance and forgiveness.

2. Roots and fruits
John called them brood of vipers. When he said brood, he was talking about their roots. When he said go and show the fruits of repentance he was talking about fruits.

Peter asked the Lord why he was washing his feet. Jesus said that if he doesnt wash then he has no part in him. Then Peter replied "then wash my head also". Then Jesus said, "the one bathed has no need to bath again, just washing hands and feet will do".

A man who is baptized has no need to take baptism again if he sins. He can repent.

3. Fruits and roots
He said every tree that doesnt give fruits will be cut off because the axe is at the roots.