OUR spirits were beginning to lag a bit as we drove on and on over strange mountainous roads to join the rest of the folks going to the picnic.
“This surely isn’t the right road, but it’s too narrow to turn around here. We’ll just have to keep going till we find a place wide enough.”
“I’m thirsty,” announced one of the girls.
“And I’m just starving,” added another.
Up and on we jolted over what seemed to be an endless, old logging road.
“Looks like tracks going through that mud there,” observed Daddy. Hopefully we wound our way onward. Abruptly the tracks turned into an old side road, where there was a “no trespassing” sign. Perhaps this was the place! We turned in too, but found the road growing more tortuous and dangerous with deep ruts, till finally we were forced to stop. We got out and called at the top of our lungs. No response. We honked the horn. Only the squawk of a magpie answered us. How we were ever going to back out of this place was the next problem!
It was a feat not easily accomplished, but at last we were on our way again, scarcely enjoying the scenery for wondering where we were. “Well now, we’re coming to a fork in the road which way shall we go?” Sure enough, the road broke off into two different directions. “But look! What is that, fluttering from the twig of a bush?”
“Oh, it’s a Sunday school paper,” we chorused; “Messages of the Love of God! We must be on the right road after all. Some thoughtful person has put it there to help us find the way.” We stopped to see what was written along one margin. There were names of those going to the picnic, with the directions, “Turn left and go one mile farther.”
What a difference that message made. We went on our way rejoicing. “My, what a beautiful day! Isn’t it lovely, deep in the forest here!” And before we knew it, we drove into a clearing where more cars were parked. A bonfire crackled and a hail of voices greeted us.
Messages of love — what a change they can bring into your life. What miracles they have wrought for many that have realized they were lost. This is as personal a message to you, as if your name were written on the margin with the very finger of God. Are you on the road to heaven? The Lord Jesus says, “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matt. 7:1414Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14). What a contrast to the popular belief that all roads lead to heaven, as long as you are sincere in what you believe.
The simple truth is this: Because of sin, we are unfit for God’s holy presence. Faith in Christ’s atoning death and shed blood is our only passport there. Christ says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14: 6.
Messages of God’s Love 7/3/1955