YOU know that hankering, nagging feeling you get when you should’ve stayed where you were to begin with? That was my drive home from work last night. I should’ve stayed on my known path, but I veered off onto a wider highway. I thought it would make a shorter drive, less stop and go, and I knew it would be more scenic.
Well, it turned out to be one of those long, winding, circular roads. This boulevard took me everywhere I didn’t need to go – way out of my way through so many neighborhoods. And I found it wasn’t that scenic considering the consumption of time and gas. And I ended up just about where I started!
At that point, I really didn’t care about exploring anything new. I just wanted to go home after a long day at work. So I got on my original path and stayed there. In no time, I was home.
I guess some paths aren’t carved for me – even though I have a choice to take them. They may seem OK, but they aren’t the best path home. They may be scenic, but have unwanted turns along the way. They just won’t take me where I need to go.
And so when you leave work tonight, take the best path home. And stay in your lane.
That’s pretty good advice for life, as it is for driving home from work. When tempted, just take the best path home. It’s a narrow road, I know, but you are certain to get there.
After all, He’s waiting for you! So take the Way of Holiness. It’s always the best path home.
Reading
Isaiah 35:8 (NIV) And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
Matthew 7:13 (NIV) Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Prayer
Dear Lord, the One Who watches over me and eagerly waits for me at Home. Keep me from the temptation of highways that go anywhere but straight to You. There is so much between my work and my home that I don’t need. There is so much between my world and Your Home that I don’t want. Lord, help me stay in my lane and keep me on the best path home – from work tonight to my home and from this life to Your eternity. In Your name, I pray. Amen.
Author: Shelley McDaniel, Virginia Beach, Virginia USA.
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