I realized I needed to get out. At least I thought I was alone.           

As I walked on this path, God was my constant companion. He walked with me, and occasionally I would remember Him and He would hold my hand as I went on, trying to guide me. He has been with me all my life, but I have never needed Him as much as I do now. Therefore, I had never paid attention to Him as much. Now that I am starting to need Him more, I am seeing how He was with me in the past. I remember when I hurt myself, He would be there to pick me up and carry me onto the right path. He had been trying to guide me all my life, but sometimes I thought I had found a better way, and I forgot about Him. He continued to walk with me, but I ignored Him. When I found myself in this dark cave feeling alone I thought, Why is He not here with me? He said He would always be there for me. Is everything I have ever believed in a lie? In reality, I was the one that had let go of His hand and ignored Him while He still walked with me.

 What finally brought me to this dark cave was my own self-centered ways. As I focused only on myself and not on God, I became scared of myself. I looked into my brain and I found chaos. I tried to figure myself out, but I just became a mess doing so. My brain was like someone’s mass of tangled hair. It was hard to find where one end began and where it ended. When I started to focus on God instead, I realized I did not have to worry about trying to figure out my brain. He would give me His thoughts, and they would lead me.

Slowly as I walk with Him on the path of life, He will correct me and try to keep me on the straight and narrow. I will become more like Him and less like myself. I know sometimes that I will not always stay on the path I am supposed to be on, because I am human. I also know that God will always be there to lovingly correct me and support me through all the hard times. He will always stay with me, even when I ignore Him. 

  There is always an end to everyone’s path. Sadly, some people’s paths will end in Hell even if they try to follow the straight and narrow.  One cannot be the key to Heaven oneself. Only Christ can get a person into Heaven. A verse in the Bible, John 3:16, says “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life” (King James Version). This means even if we try to be “good people” and to get into Heaven through good works, the only way to get there is through Christ, God’s son, whom He sent to die on the cross for all us sinners. He did this because He loves us. I personally know my path will end in Heaven because I received Christ, God’s son, who is the key into Heaven.