BBD 08.06.08 The Right Path
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08.06.08
The Right Path
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. Because narrow is
the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who
find it. - Matthew 7:13-14.
Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. - Psalm 25:4.
Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way. The
humble He guides in justice, and the humble He teaches His way. All the
paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His
testimonies
For Your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. - Psalm
25:8-11.
What way is our life headed? What path are we really traveling? Are we going
the way that we want to go? This is the way that our flesh, our natural man
wants to travel. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 14:12, "There is a way that
seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death."
There is also the way that others would want us to travel. The Psalmist says
in Psalm 1:1, "... the path of sinners...." There is another way, a best
way, that the Lord wants us to take: "This is the way, walk in it (Isaiah
30:21)."
I remember while working in the oilfield going to a job out in the ranching
country west of Canadian, Texas. If you remember the movie, Cast Away, with
Tom Hanks that is where the movie ended with his returning an unopened
package with angel's wings that had washed up on the island to a home near
Canadian in the Texas Panhandle (The home is a bed and breakfast now.).
My directions to the job instructed that I was to take the second fork in
the road after leaving Canadian. We took the second fork in the road and
drove and drove. There are many miles of unpaved roads through that ranching
area. We came back to the beginning and took another possible second fork in
the road and drove and drove. I enlisted a deputy sheriff to help find the
rig location we were to go to. I went back to Canadian and called in for
more directions - if only I had had a cell phone! We searched for most of
the day and burned up a tank of gas before receiving the directions for the
right way to the location.
Yes, it was the second fork in the road but the second fork turned onto a
pasture trail with only tracks for the tires of vehicles. We were searching
for an actual road traveled by many vehicles but the road we needed was a
narrow one!
After traveling this narrow road for about a half mile, we went down into a
valley where the oil rig was located. The drilling rig could not be seen
from the main road which we had traveled many times by then. By the time we
arrived, we were tired, frustrated, and still had a job to do.
How much simpler and easier life is when we have the right directions and
follow the right path!
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