Make your escape through the Valley of Tears with him on the trail that he blazed

Fools try to blaze their own trail through the wilderness, across the Red Sea of death and into the Kingdom of God. The wise pass through the Valley of Tears with Jesus on the trail that Jesus blazed. Follow him. He is the way (John 14:6) . "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6) . To rescue us from our dire predicament in the Valley of Tears, God built an escape route, defined it with holy places, made a map of them, established a Church and entrusted the map to the Church. The Church has the map and knows the way. The job of the Church is to facilitate the escape not to frustrate it, filter it or foul it up (Isaiah 57:14) . The escape of the new Exodus through the evils of the Valley of Tears is primary. Nothing else matters. Everything else is secondary. Anything that interferes is suspect (Matthew 23:13) . “Nobody left behind" is the motto of the escape. "Neither saint nor sinner” (Luke 15) .