Roads are important. They can take you on important trips and exciting adventures. Rascal Flatts (and Selah) sing, ” I set out on a narrow way, many years ago. Hoping I would find true love, along the broken road. But I got lost a time or two, wiped my brow and kept pushing through. I couldn’t see how every sign, pointed straight to you.”
I love to set out on roadtrips. But, when it’s all said and done, the best part about roads are that they lead home!
In high school and college I can remember how exciting and just plain wonderful it felt when driving the roads between Little Rock and Ferndale. The road to the House!
Country music singer Maranda Lambert sings, “I know they say, you can’t go home again. Well, I just had to come back one last time… I thought if I could touch this place or feel it, the brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here it’s like I’m someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself. If I could just come in, I swear I’ll leave. Won’t take nothing but a memory. From the house that built me.”
If you can’t already tell, I can grow nostalgic really fast of my childhood years! From the house I grew up in, to the country roads that took me out for adventures, but always brought me home again. The house my Momma and Daddy built that sheltered and nurtured me. The house that watched me grow from a baby to a bride.
Roads and Home. They are important.
The Bible says, “For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.” Hebrews 3:4 My Momma and Daddy and that Ferndale house may have helped, but God has built me!
While watching the movie “42” about the famous Jackie Robinson, I heard a great quote he made while being faced with all sorts of hard times. He said simply, “God built me to last.”
Sometimes I get discouraged. By comparison to some, I don’t have this or that. And then I feel guilty, because I should be content. (After all, I am in the top 1% of wealth in the world!) Lately it seems the world is going mad! ISIS, Planned Parenthood, and the destruction of the family. The state of our country. Millions of people signing up to cheat on their spouse. I could go on and on. For sure our country has lost her way, and sometimes it feels like I’m losing the way and won’t last either.
I’m thankful God still speaks to us today. Through the words of the Bible we can hear Him clearly. In Jeremiah 6:16, the Lord is pointing the way. “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
While we are surrounded by a broken society on a road to hell, the Lord tells us where to go. Ancient paths and good ways. Back to our roots. Back to the basics. Back to His law. Deuteronomy 30:16 commands us to love God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees, and laws. That is the ancient path that will lead to life and prosperity. That road will allow us to find rest for our souls.
All of the signs point straight to the Road that will lead us Home. It is both an Ancient One AND a Narrow One. A Road that will carry our brokenness and burdens and give us healing. It is a Road that is built up and will last!
And I want to walk that Road all the way Home!