Even experienced drivers are challenged as they attempt to navigate confusing circles, roundabouts and interchanges. Some interchanges are so confusing that they actually look like a plate of spaghetti! Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, England, both have a “Spaghetti Junction,” with Atlanta taking the prize for being monstrously confusing. Paying strict attention to where you are going is a must, or these junctions will happily spit you out into a residential area where you don’t want to be. Circles can be challenging as they often have many roads leading into them. In Halifax, Canada, there is a circle with five roads leading into it — but one of the roads going into it gives the people the right-of-way, which leads to confusion and accidents. Besides that, the circle has two lanes, which can make it difficult for those in the inner lane to exit.
England is famous for their roundabouts. Many of them have beautiful floral arrangements in the center of them, but don’t allow yourself to be distracted, or they might be the last thing that you see! In a marvel of engineering traffic design in England, Swindon’s Magic Roundabout has five outer roundabouts that spin in one direction around an inner roundabout that spins in the opposite direction. Those that are practiced in navigating this roundabout say that all you have to do is point your car in the direction that you want to go, yield to the traffic in the roundabout and avoid collision. In its years of operation there have been few accidents, probably because everyone has to slow down to a snail’s pace just to survive unscathed.
These road designs require a person to be on high alert, have quick reflexes, and their eyes in every direction at once. It is a challenge that not everyone can handle, for many different reasons. They may be mentally or physically handicapped, there may be a language barrier, or they may not be able to drive due to their age.
Simple, Understandable Plan
But God, in His great love and compassion towards mankind, has made the way of salvation so simple and plain that anyone can come to Him. He does not require skill, ability or knowledge on our part. “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. ... He was buried, and ... He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-43For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (1 Corinthians 15:3‑4)). There is nothing for us to do; Christ has done it all, so that rich or poor, young or old, intelligent or simple, talented or unskilled, can have their sins forgiven and have eternal life. “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-98For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8‑9)). “Saved through faith” means that we need to ask the Lord to forgive our sins and simply believe in our hearts that God has accepted us because of the work that His Son Jesus did on Calvary’s cross. This is the magnificent and beautiful “simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:33But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:3))!