Who Do You Look Like Today?

 Matthew 7:14 “Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

As Owen and I were driving to Houston, Texas last June, we had to drive through the Plano/Dallas area. It was a nightmare, and if we didn't have our GPS running, we would have probably gotten lost. It was stressful, to say the least. It was a mess of highways that converged at the same place, with bridges everywhere, and traffic is often unbearable. The area we drove through had so many freeways to access that we were totally confused! What a place.

I have found a lot of people that have been stuck in the Plano/Dallas highways of life. They have converged on a certain point, and they are now stuck in the traffic jams of life. From getting their children to school on time, to picking up Tommy from school and getting him to soccer practice, and at the same time getting Sally to Girl Scouts is physically draining. Add to that traffic, a superior at work riding your back about something seemingly irrelevant, an argument with your spouse before work, and oh, yeah, choir practice is at seven. The only time you have had all day to rest was the five minutes that you spent on the side of the road waiting for that policeman to write your ticket because you were speeding to get everything accomplished on the highway of life.

We have all been there, done that, and made the t-shirt. Life gets so hectic that we often fail to see beyond this life into the life that has been promised to us, if we are born again.

There is some good news. In the midst of all that, there is this one thing: there is no traffic jam on the straight and narrow road. You know, that road that leads to heaven. Just think, shortly, all traffic in life will cease for the glory of your final destination.

"We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation." Tom Stoppard