Never Take The Loop Road

“Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.”  Psalm 25:4

Never take the Loop Road because it will take you off the road that easier, simpler and smoother to travel on and eventually lead you back to the same destination anyway!

Near my house is a road named “Loop Road.” To be traveling on the main road and to suddenly find yourself on the loop road is as simple as a slight “Y” in the road.  You almost do not have to slow down at all to even get on the Loop Road from the original road.  Within a few hundred yards it curves and then begins to parallel the original road for some distance.  It is not as smooth as the original road.  Its curves are much more difficult to negotiate, and its hill much steeper, but eventually it brings you back out to the original road where you are faced with a decision.  Do you turn left and go back in the direction you came or do you turn right and go in the same direction that you would have gone anyway had you not gotten on the Loop Road to begin with.

                God has a path for you.  He has a destination for you and a purpose for your life!  He has never intended you to bare off on any loop roads, yet we all do from time to time.  Sometimes we do not even realize that we have bared off on that road until we suddenly realize the road under us isn’t as smooth as it was before or we can’t navigate the curves as easy as we once could.  We look over through the forest and see others traveling on some other road and suddenly realize something has gone horribly wrong and we are on different roads, yet traveling in the same direction.