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My daughter and I had arranged a few week ago to have a trip over to Three Shire Heads. I had seen photographs on Pinterest and thought how beautiful it was, and that I would be able to get some lovely photos. We also decided that if the weather was in our favour we would take the dogs with us, my daughter has two Chihuahuas. The scenery on the way there was beautiful, I must admit I am bias when it comes to Derbyshire, there are some amazing places. And although the sun wasn’t shining, still it did not detract from the beautiful scenery we were passing through. We were relying on Satnav for directions, and we stopped at a village called Harlington, with the usual Derbyshire stone featuring in the buildings, it had a lovely B and B called Parson’s House, which I took a photo of for future reference, thinking that I might have a couple of nights stay there and explore the village and surrounding countryside.

We set off again after stretching our legs, the puppies included, and continued on our journey to Three Shire Heads, or so we thought! But it was not to be, we found ourselves on a dirt track, the only traffic scramble bikes. We did park up and let the puppies have a walk, but we were not to see the Three Shires Heads. We did however have a lovely walk along Cromford Canal before returning home, we even found three treasure rocks, which we now have to re-hide. I couldn't understand why we couldn't find our way, after all we had the sat nav and I had looked on Google. But I hadn't done a thorough search, I had taken the first thing I read, there was much more to this journey than I thought.

I was reminded of the passage of scripture where the Lord Jesus, says to some, "l know you not, depart from me you workers of iniquity." They were false converts, they were people who had chosen a different path than that on which the Lord commands we must go. They could not enter heaven via the route they had taken. Many people have a false idea of going to heaven, they ignore the fact that Jesus said that there is only one way to the Father, and that is through Him. Salvation and eternal life cannot be bought, earned, worked for, and neither does any man deserve it. 

We have clear instructions on how to receive forgiveness, salvation and eternal life from God, in His word, the Holy Bible. Repent of your sin, everyone is a sinner, everyone has broken Gods laws, and therefore we a condemned. But Christ took our punishment on the cross. When we break the law of our land, then we are judged, found guilty and punished, so too with the law of God, we have broken Gods laws, we are guilty and will be punished. No one can escape Gods justice, our only hope is Jesus, He took our place, He was punished so that we would not have to be.