THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
There are so many different avenues in life. Choices are always available if you yield to it. Choices are good and wholesome at times. It gives you a variety instead of settling for something that oftentimes doesn’t appease one’s most attainable desires. Choices leave one with a feeling of superiority similar to a well-planned food buffet layout of scrumptious appetizers and cuisine to satisfy the very essence of a man’s (mankind) soul. Food buffets to many are the epitome of a balanced meal. It can give an elevation in the spirit realm, pleasing the soul of a man. The choice of different types of foods can very easily satisfy every desire of food you could possibly yearn for.
Buffets are the complete opposite of fine dining in a restaurant. Of course, there are different selections of food choices, but you have to pay for each item you desire. Therefore, the choice of a buffet pleases many, however, to some a fine restaurant will suffice with a balanced menu. The choice is simply up to you, fine dining or a variety of different sorts of food in a buffet for the price of one cuisine in a fine dining restaurant. Some say the choices of many foods for the price of one is more for your money. They believe it’s the way, but many times the choices are not good for you. Then there are some who believe that one fine meal, to the equivalent of several meals is ideal. Choices are inevitable in our lives. God has given man the mind and opportunity to make our own choices. We all can relish in this magnificent blessing that God has bestowed upon all of his people; choices
The kingdom of God is the same way. You can either choose holiness or the world. There is only one road to choose where the kingdom of God is concerned and that is the road of holiness. Yes, of certainty, you do have another choice and that is the road of destruction, but there’s only one choice to the kingdom of God and that is the road of holiness. It is a highway. You can either choose life or death in this world. The road that leads to the kingdom of God is the highway of cleanliness and holiness and pleasing God’s desire, living a sinless life. This is the highway of holiness, the road of life. The other choice is the road of destruction; lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. These are all the love of the world and it leads to destruction.
The reality of the kingdom of God is not many choices as in a well-appetizing buffet but as one simple, delicious entree, as in fine dining. This road of life of the kingdom of God you will not see a lot of people and it is a narrow road and few people should actually find it. This is the road of life and the highway that leads to heaven. The road of destruction has many people and it leads to death, choose life and live in holiness and not death that wreaks havoc and sin. Fine dining is the way of life. Choose life and not death today! Choose holiness and forsake the world.
You will not find many in the road of holiness. It is a road less traveled, but it is as fine dining; you pay for what you get. Jesus has paid the price for all men. All we have to do is receive it. Choose life and not death! Do you prefer a selection of many meals for the price of one, or one fine meal? This is as the kingdom of God. The choice is up to you. Choose life and not death, one fine meal, a road less traveled.
“And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein” (ISAIAH 35:8).
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (MATTHEW 7:13).
Forever in His Peace,
Rev. Helen Trower
