Navigating Rough Roads
I don’t really understand the roadwork that was done on Warner Hill leading up to the church last summer. When they scraped up the surface asphalt, I fully expected that they would replace it with a nice, new, smooth surface…but they didn’t.
Some have suggested that the rough surface would make the road easier to navigate during the snow and ice that would follow in winter. I’m not sure I agree with that, but who am I? I know little or nothing about road surfaces.
I do, however, know something about the figurative rough roads that we all encounter in life, and I’m sure you do, too. Sometimes we have no choice as to which direction we must go — there is only one route — but most times we have several options.
I guess the question is, what road are we on spiritually at the present time, and is it taking us in the direction we wish to go? The Old Testament Prophet Isaiah reminds us in 35:8 about a highway, which “shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.” I guess we’re all fools at one time or another, but by following His pathway, we will never go too far astray because He is always watching over us.
Once we have chartered our route, we can then guide others so that they, too, will not lose their way, but rather follow the road to righteousness that leads to eternal life.