“For by grace are ye saved through
faith …” (Ephesians 2:8, KJ21).
For centuries … parents, poets,
politicians, philosophers, teachers, preachers, psychologists and writers have
walked down the descriptive and analytical pathways of the metaphor of life
being a road. These varied helpers have
tried to help others navigate their own roads by offering insights and advice
on the difficulties of roads being both considered and travelled by those under
their responsibility or care and direction. Warnings have issued and warnings have been
ignored. Advice has been offered and
advice has been cast aside like un-needed excessive baggage into the adjoining
ditch on these many and varied roads called
life.
There seems to be in the heart of all human beings, a sense
of stubborn ignorant, selfish and rebellious determination to walk down roads
of our own choosing. We walk by the
warning signs of experience, we shrug off the concern of those who would help
us and we fail to consider the timeless advice from our God just because we
want to go our own way on the roads that we want to walk down.
Roads of lust, coveting, greed and desire. Roads of pride
and unconcern. Roads of power and self-absorption. Ancient ill-advised treacherous roads that
seem new and fresh only because we are foolish and unwise to believe we are
better equipped than the myriads of those tripped up on these dangerous
pathways. How utterly vain and ridiculous
we as human beings can be! How
desperately we need a Savior with an endless supply of grace!
What a blessed reality to find a Savior with such an amazing
grace on the rebellious roads each of us have travel throughout the days of our
lives. Patient grace that knows every detail of our foolish journeys on roads
that end at the cliff sides of danger and destruction to catch us as we fall. Immense and powerful grace, that intervenes to
stop us from harming ourselves and others through the mysterious and miraculous
presence of a Savior who uses people, places and things to help us.
Welcome and inviting grace that redeems our
choice of roads, again and again. It was
grace that redeemed an adulterous David and proud Saul on their poorly chosen
roads and it will be grace that will redeem us on our roads of life as
well. Thanks be to God for the Savior
that meets all of us on our ill-advised and badly chosen rebellious roads in
life!
Suggested Reading … Psalm 51, Acts 9:1-9
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