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created on 11/28/2011  |  http://fubar.com/for-the-lost/b344941

Is Your Road Ready?

Is Your Road Ready? 

 

For well over two thousand years this question has been asked of mankind. More accurately, it has been a request made to all of mankind. Who made it? It was the life purpose of the son of Zacharias, his name was John. He preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. (Luke 3:2-3)  He became known as John the Baptist. He asked that the road be made ready for the Lord. (Matthew 3:3 Mark 1:3 Luke 3:4 and John 1:7) And spoke of the coming of the Light to all of mankind.

 

Most who know of John the Baptist also know of his request, but how to address it has become a source of perplexing concern for most of mankind.  “How do I make the road ready for the Lord?”  Being able to ask this question alone is a blessing; many seek to answer it but are completely clueless as to how to do it!

 

The road spoken of here is not a path on earth. So no tools are necessary to do this job.  The road is indeed a way, but the way is within.  In the heart of man, lies many mountains that are made up of people and things that man has given high regard and esteem to.  God does not want His creation to place the created between Him and them, so these mountains must be brought low, so that the glory that has been given to these creations be rightfully placed on Him who created them.

 

The valleys within our hearts are also in need of our attention; these are places where we have concluded that our conditions have set us out of the view and consideration of the Lord who created us.  This is an error, and these valleys need to be filled with our acceptance of the fact that there is no place where we can be or go outside of God’s view and loving consideration.

 

Are you beginning to see why making this road ready has been so hard for mankind to do?  If not, you will!  The world is set against man doing this at all, and man has plenty of opposition to his meeting this request. God gave a man the purpose of making this request known, it was for a reason. God loves His creation man, and seeks to prepare him for what He expects of him.  The world however, under the rule of the prince of darkness, seeks to hide from man everything that has to do with truth so that it can succeed in its plan of total destruction of man.

 

So we come to the request to make the road straight. Now we have all taken physical roads in our life, and we know what the difference is between a straight road and one with a curve in it. In our hearts, we have desires and those desires serve either to build us up or to destroy us, but we choose them!  And not only do we choose them, we place conviction in our choice to have those desires.

 

Conviction allows for no deviation, that is to say the path is straight, no curves allowed.  Now, if destruction is your choice, and there is conviction in your decision to destroy yourself, there should not be a curve in your heart.  Stand on your decision and do not swerve from it.  Conversely, if building yourself up is your decision, then place conviction in your desire and do not allow any deviation from your choice.

 

Now, rough as opposed to smooth, whether we are walking or riding we know what the difference is in the road we are on.  But in our hearts we have a different perception of rough and smooth.  In our hearts we are opposed to rough, difficult, challenging, demanding, or just simply hard.  We find it very difficult to be grateful for what we find to be dissatisfying.  In humility, we can be grateful for every single event and experience we have had in our living because it gave us something that we would not have willingly asked for.  Or we could complain about what a hard ride it was for us.  The request to make it smooth is very simple, but for many it is very difficult to do.

 

The last thing that John states in scripture has to do with the Why of his request.  Why would we do what is necessary to make the road ready for the Lord?  “And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” (John 3:6)  Contrary to what the world has told man, the salvation of man is returning to the face of the earth.  Jesus, the Son of God and the Salvation of man is indeed returning to earth.  Your road being made ready is to say at the very least, that you have done something with your living aside from simply taking advantage of the right to live.

 

Failure to regard this request with high priority cannot be emphasized enough.  There will not be a second chance to do this.  For over two thousand years this request has been made known to all of mankind.  Those who have heard it and have not acted on it will no recourse.  Those who have not heard it and have not cared to believe it will have no recourse. Those who have heard it and have not understood what it meant now, have no recourse.  Smooth, level and straight is the road in the heart of the man who wants to give God what He has asked for.  What do you want to give Him?

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