I live in a very rural area. In fact, when we first moved here twenty years ago, my husband got a big piece of plywood and spray painted a sign on it in bright orange, “Vickie, Turn Here” just so I could find out driveway when I came home from work. I tell everyone that we live between the trees and that is pretty accurate. Once you make the first turn onto our little road, then you have to be careful to bear left between the trees in order to arrive at the correct house. It’s very complicated, but people who want to find us can. We used to have a sign put at the beginning of our part of the driveway that said our house number, but it didn’t last long because the neighbor drives a big truck and knocked it down. So delivery drivers just have to know where the house is. Some find us and others leave our packages at the front house, with the neighbor who has the big truck. What I’m trying to say is that it takes me or my husband giving very detailed directions for people to find us.

Now, relate that to finding Jesus. You have to tell people about what He has done for you for them to find their way to Him themselves. And it is not an easy road to find; it takes searching the Scripture with an open heart and being willing to admit that you have sin in your life. People who really desire to find Jesus can! So many people in today’s world are lost, really lost. They have found their worth in things like socializing, a career, family life, and pleasure. They are losing out on God’s great gift of His Son because they are following the way of the majority of the world; they are lost, but they don’t know it. Some will want to know, and it is our responsibility to tell them. Others have no desire to change their lifestyle and become what God wants them to be. No matter what, we are to tell all about the Lord and let them choose the way that they will go. We give the directions to Jesus, but they have to choose to follow them.

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Sometimes it seems that our sharing the Gospel is just not getting us anywhere. The people that we talk to aren’t changing; they haven’t accepted the Lord as their Savior. In my frustration, I have been known to say, “Well, if you want to go to hell, that’s your choice, but it isn’t what God wants for you.” Harsh? Yes, it is, but sometimes I get weary of giving the same directions to the same people. Nevertheless, that is what we are supposed to do, hoping and praying that God will open their eyes to the narrow way that leads to eternal life with Him. I have many family members who don’t believe in the Lord and in eternal salvation. That’s not okay with God, but that is their choice. I still share my faith with them and live in such a way (I hope) that they will see the change in me and want something more in their lives. I can’t take people down the narrow road that leads to life everlasting, but I can show them the pathway to take and leave them with the choice to go that route or not. That’s what the Christian life is all about, making wise choices daily and continuing down the narrow way.

Bless you all who read this to the end and who are continuing on this journey with me! I hope that your way is narrow and that you have found the way to His gift of eternal life!