Every now and then I read a news story about an accident that occurred when someone turned the wrong way on a one way street. Sometimes people even get on the wrong side of a freeway driving against two or more lanes of traffic. I cannot imagine the terrible feeling that suddenly seeing cars coming at me in all lanes would bring. Yet, this experience is the case with many spiritual travelers.
There is only one way to heaven. Jesus provided that way when He became our substitute and received the wages for our sin on the cross. When we receive him and his gift we enter the one way road to heaven. Throughout the Bible those on this road to heaven are referred to as the blessed. In Psalm 1:1 the wrong way road is described. It is a road of regression. God says in this verse, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful..." Notice the movement from walking to standing to sitting. If our walk is not in the right way on the right road we will soon be in the gridlock of sin, rejecting the truth of God's one way.
The road of blessing is seen in Psalm 1:2, "...but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night." To delight in God's Word presupposes a change of heart and direction. Only those on the road to heaven have a delight in God's Word. Our relationship with him becomes a moment by moment ongoing one in which He fills our thoughts, directs our desires and keeps us on the one way road to heaven. Make sure you are not trying to go the wrong way on a one way street.
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