Matthew 2:12

We know the experience of traveling at a good speed down the highway when suddenly everything comes to a halt.

Jesus taught us that we can spiritually get tied up and lost in traffic. He said that there is a wide and crowded way that many choose to take. It may be filled with pleasures and excitement, but it can also take us away from everyone and everything that makes life good. The Bible teaches that sin has its pleasure, but it is only for a season. Sin is always a dead-end road.

I was driving in a car that had no air conditioner. Moving at a good speed with the windows down all was well, and then I got into stop and go traffic. It was one of those days when a person might want to sing the hymn, “I Feel Like Traveling On,” but the radio is playing, “Slow down, slow down, be still, my child; Be still and wait on the Spirit of the Lord.

That day I was traveling at a turtle’s pace behind a tractor-trailer that was hauling pigs. We can’t always choose the traffic that we share life’s highway with (sometimes it just stinks), but we can choose what road we will travel.

Jesus said that the road that leads to life is narrow, and only a few find it. It may be narrow and steep. It may bypass the places of temporary pleasure; but it is where the road is taking you that matters. You may get your kicks on Route 66, but the road to our eternal home is the way of the cross.

You must believe it is there, and want to travel it, or you will never find it. May we, by the grace of God, choose the road less traveled. It has proven to be the right way.

“The Lord has been so good to me
I feel like traveling on
Until that blessed home I see
I feel like traveling on.

Yes, I feel like traveling on
I feel like traveling on
My heavenly home is bright and fair
I feel like traveling on.”