Oh,
the roads we have all traveled at some point in our lives. Not your
desired scenic routes that's for sure. You know the beautiful ones
with views of a beautiful sky and mountains with rolling hills
touched by rushing waters flowing over rocks and fish swimming
downstream. The hills are covered with flowers blooming like they
will never wither and die. The clouds exploding like cotton candy
upon a sea of deep blue waters.
No,
not all the roads are the same! Some roads lead us down paths of
darkness and emptiness where it seems no living creature has ever
been before. You feel as though you are the first explorer, traveling
where NO one has ever trod. The paths are all covered with briers and
debris that seems to have never been disturbed with nothing growing
or blooming. It is barren of beauty because it is hidden by dark and
heavy clouds, rumbling with the force of a storm and so frightful.
These are the roads that can seem to never end. They certainly don't
lead to where you had intended.
There
are many tears of sorrow on this road, causing your vision to be
blurred and dimmed. Sometimes causing you to make wrong judgments and
decisions. Also, bad vision can make you see things that are not
really there. At other times you don't see what is actually
happening.
Be
warned! Don't give in to the billboards that have been posted by
Satan along the way. Those that promise quick relief to numb your
pain. They will leave you a crumpled heap in the ditch. Look up above
all the distractions, and please don't pick up any hitchhiker by the
name of "Self- Pity" or the "Accuser." They will
make your road twice as long and almost unbearable.
You
must come to yourself and look further than the road your traveling.
See Psalm 121:1-2 and declare, "I will lift up mine eyes unto
the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth." Look to the one who sees the big
picture, and knows you by name. He knows exactly where you made the
wrong turn.
Sometime
it is our not paying attention, or our stubbornness to think we know
the way to go without consulting our Road Map. We must come to the
place that we admit we are LOST and don't know the way out of the
wilderness. We must call out in repentance, Lord, I am sorry that I
missed the path you had for me. Somewhere I missed it, and I desire
to be rescued from myself. I desire to be on a different road,
because this one is destroying me. Lord, please shine your Light upon
my path that I might see YOU and know your way. Lead me to a path
where I can see your light and feel the sun's rays upon my face,
touching me with Your love and mercy and giving me direction for my
life. I am so sorry for my sin and I want it to be repulsive to me so that I never turn back to my old ways. I want you to change me and
make me new. Help me to have a love and desire for you that will
quench all hunger and thirst for unrighteousness. Change my desires
to want more and more of you Lord, until I meet You on that Day when
you come to claim your own...
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