Good Roads Ahead

My granddaughter and I took a little trip the first of last week to visit my father for a few hours. I seldom get the chance anymore with a full schedule and the price of gasoline. My trip to his home in Brownsville always includes a stop at Sunny Glen Children’s Home in San Benito with clothes that have been donated to the church. With that stop to unload the van, the trip takes about four and a half hours one way, but over the years it seems to be a little less challenging. The state highway is slowly but surely being converted into an Interstate Freeway, which means there’s always construction somewhere along the way. It seems every time I travel south a new section has been completed or is soon to be, with new bridges that lift you up and over intersecting roads or new stretches of roadway that take you around and off of city streets, eliminating some of the dangers that cross traffic can pose to 70 m.p.h. travelers. It’s still the same amount of miles, a little less time (used to take 5 hours), but a lot less nerve racking.
Upon entering a little country store, the stranger noticed a sign reading, “DANGER! Beware of Dog” posted on the glass door. Inside, he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor next to the cash register. He asked the man behind the counter, “Is that the dog folks are suppose to beware of?” “Yep, that’s him,” the man replied. The stranger couldn’t help but be amused. “That certainly doesn’t look like a dangerous dog to me. Why in the world did you post that sign?” “Because,” the owner explained, “Before I posted the sign, people kept tripping over him.”
[Matthew 6: 33] “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” On The Road To Forever is not just some catch phrase for my article, but something I believe in and something everybody ought to be thinking about every day. Each day of our life we are traveling to our Father’s house. Our number one priority in this life ought to be going to heaven. Colossians 3:2 “Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.” While traveling down this road of life, are you traveling light, or are you dragging so much junk you’re holding up the people around you? Matthew 16: 26 “For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” The highway department is always working on the roads we travel to make them last longer, be smoother, be safer, be more enjoyable and in many cases be faster. While traveling down this road to forever, are you allowing God to build a more comfortable life for you with bridges and bypasses that move you away from the dangers and evils of this world? John 14: 5-6 Thomas said to Him, “Lord we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” Jesus has gone to prepare a place for a prepared people; those who believe, are baptized in His name for the remission of their sins, and continue to live this life following His commands. The place He is preparing will exceed our wildest dreams. 1 Corinthians 2: 9, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” No matter which father I see next, I know at the end of the road, he will be waiting with open arms. Don’t let the world trip you up.