Are You Heading in the Wrong Direction?

This morning as we drove to church we nearly had a rear end collision. The cause of this near miss were a family of geese crossing the busy highway bridge.Once these geese reach the other side we're wondering how they will ever truly make it to safety. Getting off the road wasn't going to be their problem. What they were about to see was a high concrete barrier preventing them safe passage. My wife made a comment to that maybe the father should have gone ahead and scouted out a safe passageway for the family instead of blindly leading them in a direction toward almost certain death.

I started thinking if only I could become one of them for only a short moment in time to show them the way and to guide them to safety.  No matter what I did this family of geese wouldn't listen to me, nor would they go in the direction I thought would be safe for them.

Then I remembered that God sent his son to show us the way by speaking the truth. What he said profoundly changed lives of those who followed him.

Becoming a Christian is accepting the reality that Jesus Christ knows the proper pathway to freedom and safety. It is acknowledging that we need Christ to be our guide through the sometimes rough passageways of life. In John 14:6 we read these words from Christ:  “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."  Some people try to venture through life searching under all of the philosophical stones, hoping to find one that will provide them with the secret for health, wealth and success.  Other's cling to the philosophy of atheism which becomes their belief system, but like the family of geese most wind up staring at a blank concrete barrier wondering "what happened?"

One of the most important decisions a person can make in life is their decision to follow Christ. All other decisions naturally flow from that one decision. Following a Savior that is so well documented in the ancient Jewish and Greek texts is the surest way of heading in the right direction. It's you choice.  Would you rather be like this family of geese heading into almost certain death, or would you like to have the King of Kings and Lord of Lords  to be your eternal guide to safety?