The Path is not a book like most books we read and then place on our shelves. God has given us the Path to prepare us to be His witnesses, martyrs, and warriors for these “decisive times.” The Lord for years has been telling us to “prepare” for the “fiercest battle” at hand, yet He doesn’t leave us on our own to prepare; He, as our loving Father, comes to prepare us Himself.

The Path is meant to be lived, not read. Through the Path, Jesus is purifying, healing, and dressing us with God’s armor for the great battle we have entered. Through the Path, the Lord is making us His “living hosts” so that God’s Light will radiate through us to penetrate the darkness all around us.

The Path is not linear, meaning we do not move from one step to another. The Path is a whole in which all of it, eventually through the power of the Holy Spirit, becomes who we are, our very life. Each of the teachings of our Lord needs to become branded in our hearts. This is a grace God will give us, but we must be willing to work hard by meditating on the Path daily and persevering in living it.

Ezekiel 36:23–26

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when through you I display my holiness before their eyes. 24 I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.