There are two roads in life that people are given the choice to travel; the preference is theirs to make. No other person can make the choice for them. The decisions leading up to the choice ultimately influence which road they take. They will encompass God or Satan.
The journey is filled with worries and heartache for some people, while a victorious journey for others. It depends upon the character of the person making the choice and to whom their allegiance is given. This determines what road they travel. They will either live each moment disobeying God’s commandments; serving the devil, or they will make plans for when life’s moments are over; serving the Lord.
The road home is narrow, and few people find it. Every nationality, creed, and color has and is using this road to make their way toward a beautiful destination—heaven. The road to heaven is made clear and is distinctively and uniquely marked for whosoever will.
The road leading to destruction is wide, and many go this direction; with its ups and downs, curves, detours, dead-ends and many chuckholes along the way. Headstrong people choose to disregard sound warnings and use this road to travel to the place that was made for the devil and his angels—hell.
(Matthew 7:13-14) “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.” vs.14 “Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
The road home is not without its challenges. Satan, the enemy of our soul, is going to and fro on this road, placing pitfalls, chuckholes, and varying temptations along the way in an attempt to lure us away from our intended destination, which is heaven.
When chuckholes are hit unexpectedly, some folks quickly learn that by hitting them they cause damage, while others seemingly never learn, or they refuse to see the extent of damage that pitfalls cause. When pitfalls shake us up enough, consideration takes place on how not to hit them again, but our journey is not always on a clear, bright, and sunshiny day.
Sometimes it is dark or foggy and many times our headlights are out of alignment, such, that we cannot see the holes, or we are traveling a bit too fast to notice them. So what do we do? We hit another one. We fail to see the signs alongside the road that say, DANGER UP AHEAD…DO NOT ENTER, as we blindly barrel down this narrow road, unaware of the potential hazards that lie in our pathway.
Coming back from visiting relatives in Redding , California
God wants all of us to be aware of the dangers and pitfalls on the road home that could potentially render our vehicle of travel inoperable. For this reason He posts signs everywhere in conspicuous places, including red flashing lights, red flags, and even the erecting of barriers to detour us away from trouble up ahead.
God doesn’t inadvertently throw us into uncharted territories and expect us to make it on our own. If this were the case there would be no one that could find his or her way to heaven’s gates. As we pay attention to the warning signs along the way and slow down, we can be assured that our journey will be one of success, free from catastrophe.
As we consider the warning signs and look for the avenue of escape, and then steer around Satan’s traps, he will not be able to disable our forward motion on the road home. He will have failed in his attempts to strand us alone in a wrecked vehicle without the means to continue our journey.
(1 Corinthians 10:13), “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”
If we, for whatever reason, should find ourselves sitting on the side of the road, broken down, unable to move forward, and feeling a little battered and dented, help is just a phone call away. All we need to do is pray and ask God the Father for help, and it’s on the way. God said in His Word that He would never leave nor forsake us.
I thank God for His personal roadside service. Though we crash and Satan tells us that all hope is gone, God provides the means, whereby, we are able to continue on. God fixes what is broken and His fix is everlasting. Jesus is the fix. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Through Jesus, our journey is made clear and our path is set before us. We need not fear or worry about what may be around the bend as long as we are paying attention to the signs that are on this side of it and obeying them. God has already taken care of the unknowns. We need only to trust Him and rest in His care.
(1 Peter 5:6-7), “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,” vs.7 “casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
God will never point us in a direction without having scouted ahead to prepare a way around the pitfalls that are waiting for us. He loves and cares for His children, and is diligent and attentive regarding our safety. His desire is to see that we have an enjoyable, yet safe trip on the way home to Him.
We may not understand why God chooses a certain direction for us to travel, especially when we assume another way is better, but we must trust and have faith in Him that He knows which way is best. After all, His goal is to get us to our destination in one piece, without a broken axle, a broken universal joint, or a broken differential gear, figuratively speaking.
God wants us to make it home safely…and we will, as long as we allow Jesus to be our co-pilot or better yet our chauffer. Placing the Lord in the driver’s seat of our life and permitting Him to safely maneuver our vehicle around life’s pitfalls, which are in a territory unknown to us, is the only sure way of making it to the Promised Land. Jesus knows the way home to heaven.
God wants us to make it home safely…and we will, as long as we allow Jesus to be our co-pilot or better yet our chauffer. Placing the Lord in the driver’s seat of our life and permitting Him to safely maneuver our vehicle around life’s pitfalls, which are in a territory unknown to us, is the only sure way of making it to the Promised Land. Jesus knows the way home to heaven.
We’ve never traveled this road here-to-for, so why do so many people think they can do it on their own? We can’t! That is the reality of our journey. Without Jesus and His roadmap, the Bible, there is no possible way that any person can know the way home to God.
The devil will certainly point us toward the wide road to destruction if we allow him to do so. He will laugh at our calamity as we pile into those that have gone before us, thinking they could make it on their own without Christ. There is only one clear direction; a one-way street on the way home—the only way—Jesus.
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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