FAITH CAPSULE: There is no better way than the way of life.
Matthew 7
The journey of life can be compared to travelling on a highway which has been constructed with lanes that can occupy any size of vehicle. It does not matter how big or small a vehicle of transportation is, each vehicle will only travel on a single lane at a time. Trailer, trucks and compact cars drive besides each other and the lanes on the highway treats no vehicle special; lanes are same in size. Imagine yourself as a vehicle on the highway of life; what size would you consider yourself to be a truck or compact car? Before God, title or position does not place anyone to travel on a specially designed lane. The highway of life only has two exits: heaven (narrow) and hell (broad) and the lane you keep determine where you exit. Jesus stated, “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.” (Matthew 7:13) Are you on the right lane or the wrong lane? Some travels long time while some only travels short distance before the exit sign shows up. Time to exit is not within us but with the One that sets us up on journey. Traveling the highway of life, there is only one exit to be taken at a time and no one take to two exits at the same time.
Have you chosen the right exit (way)? Jesus spoke out about the way that leads through to the expected end stating, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus is the only way. There are so many ways that seem right to you; those are the ways you should avoid if you sincerely desire to get to where God has prepared for you. Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 repeatedly sound the warning of avoiding what “seems” to be the right way. Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Today which of the way (exit) will you chose? There is no better way than the way of life. It is not about what you think or what seems right; it is about the truth and the truth is always right. In the way of the truth, challenges will emerge but you will overcome them if you have purposed not to take any way that is outside of the Way. In the way of God, all you will have to avoid is taking a short cut because a short cut will cut you short and the final destination will be terminated. Commit yourself to the way of God. He that goes in the way of God always gets to his destination. Make the right choice today by taking the Way.
Prayer for today: Ask Him to redirect your steps from every way you might have taken outside of His holy name.